Sale of unfit equipment or packaging or labelling material
20 Sale of unfit equipment or packaging or labelling material
A person must not sell equipment that if used for the purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used—
would render or be likely to render food unsafe, or
would put other equipment, or would be likely to put other equipment, in such a condition that, if the other equipment were used for the purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used, it would render, or be likely to render, food unsafe.
A person must not sell packaging or labelling material that if used for the purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used would render or be likely to render food unsafe.
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units in the case of an individual and 2,500 penalty units in the case of a corporation.
Note—
An offence against this section committed by a corporation is an executive liability offence attracting executive liability for a director or other person involved in the management of the corporation—see section 122.
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