Imported Food Control Act 1992

An application for a food control certificate must:

be made in a manner prescribed by the regulations; and

be made by an owner of the food to which the application relates; and

be given or communicated to an authorised officer; and

contain such information as the regulations provide.

The regulations may provide that an entry of goods under section 71A or 71DH of the Customs Act for home consumption or warehousing that is communicated to the Immigration and Border Protection Department by computer is to be taken, to the extent that that entry relates to examinable food, to be an application for a food control certificate for the purposes of subsection (1).

If the regulations make provision in accordance with subsection (2) in relation to a computer entry under the Customs Act, the application so made is taken to have been communicated to an authorised officer at the time when it is taken to have been communicated to the Immigration and Border Protection Department under the Customs Act.