Victorian Numbered Acts

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SAFETY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2024 (NO. 44 OF 2024)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF DAIRY ACT 2000

   3.      Recommendations of a selection committee  
   4.      Section 21 repealed  
   5.      Sale and delivery of dairy food which has not been pasteurised or packed and sealed as required  
   6.      New section 36A inserted  
   7.      Criminal liability of officers of bodies corporate—failure to exercise due diligence (legal burden of proof)  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF FOOD ACT 1984

           Division 1--Compliance and enforcement powers

   8.      Inspection of premises by registration authority  
   9.      Proceedings for offences  
   10.     Infringements  

           Division 2--Display of information

   11.     New Division 5 inserted in Part VI  
   12.     Criminal liability of officers of bodies corporate—accessorial liability  

           Division 3--Miscellaneous amendments

   13.     Definitions  
   14.     Orders  
   15.     Role of Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions  
   16.     Orders relating to premises on which primary food production and related activities are carried out  
   17.     Remedy in respect of articles seized  
   18.     Power of court to order forfeiture  
   19.     Evidentiary certificate signed by the Secretary DHHS  
   20.     Evidentiary certificate signed by the Secretary DJPR or the chief executive officer of DFSV or PrimeSafe  
   21.     Evidence of signatures  
   22.     Protection against liability  
   23.     Delegations by Secretary DJPR, the DFSV or PrimeSafe  
   24.     Regulations  
   25.      Statute law revision  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993

           Division 1--Information sharing

   26.     Section 57 substituted  

           Division 2--Selection committee

   27.     Recommendations of a selection committee  

           Division 3--Licensing

   27A.    Fit and proper person  

   PART 5--AMENDMENT OF SEAFOOD SAFETY ACT 2003

   28.     Definitions  
   29.     Application for a seafood safety licence  
   30.     Mandatory powers of Authority in respect of licences  

   PART 6--REPEAL OF THIS ACT

   31.     Repeal of this Act  
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