Imported Food Control Act 1992

The Secretary may determine, in writing, that, for food of a specified kind, a specified certificate issued by a specified person or specified body is a recognised food safety management certificate.

The regulations deal with when food of such a kind is taken to be failing food because the food is not covered by a recognised food safety management certificate.

See section 35B for how a determination may refer to a kind of food.

For variation and revocation of the determination, see subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

For specification by class, see subsection 33(3AB) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

The Secretary must, in writing, make guidelines that the Secretary must have regard to before making a determination under subsection (1).

For variation and revocation of the guidelines, see subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

A person must not forge, or utter, knowing it to be forged, a certificate of the kind referred to in subsection (1).

The following are not legislative instruments:

a determination under subsection (1);

guidelines under subsection (2).

The Secretary must publish the following on the Department’s website:

a determination under subsection (1);

guidelines under subsection (2).

For the purposes of this section, forge and utter have the meanings given by section 19A.