Food Act 2001

A person who is carrying on business as part of a multiple-site food business at which standardised food that is unpackaged, or packaged at the point of sale, is sold directly to the public must ensure that information relating to—

any ingredient or additive of a prescribed class in that food;

and

any modification of a prescribed class that has occurred to any material contained in that food; and

any other matter of a prescribed class, that complies with the requirements of the regulations is available for persons who may order or purchase that food.

The regulations may—

prescribe the manner in which the information required under subsection (1) is to be made available to members of the public;

exclude certain classes of food business, or certain classes of food, from the operation of subsection (1).

A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a requirement imposed by or under this section. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $2 500. Expiation fee: $125.

In this section—

multiple-site food business means a food business that is carried on at five or more separate locations (including where the business is carried on under one or more franchise agreements);

standardised food—standardised food is food sold as part of a multiple-site food business that is intended to be the same (or substantially the same) when purchased at any location where the multiple-site food business is carried on.