Foreign government certificates
18 Foreign government certificates
The Secretary may determine, in writing, that a certificate issued by an instrumentality of a specified foreign government stating that food of a specified kind meets applicable standards and does not pose a risk to human health is a recognised foreign government certificate.
See section 35B for how a determination may refer to a kind of food.
The Secretary may revoke a determination under subsection (1) if the Secretary has reason to doubt the continued reliability of a statement made in any certificate to which the determination relates.
Offence
A person must not forge, or utter, knowing it to be forged, a certificate of the kind referred to in subsection (1).
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
Status of instruments
A determination under subsection (1), or a revocation under subsection (2), is not a legislative instrument.
Definitions
For the purposes of this section, forge and utter have the meanings given by section 19A.
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