Dairy and Food Innovation Act 2000

As soon as practicable after the Minister has approved a Code of Practice, the Authority must publish the Code of Practice in the Government Gazette.

There must be published with a Code of Practice or a notice of an amendment under section 31(4), a notice stating that the Code of Practice, any incorporated document or any amendment to an incorporated document, as the case may be, may be inspected at the office of the Authority specified in the notice.

Even though a Code of Practice has come into operation, a person cannot be convicted of an offence or be prejudicially affected or made subject to any liability under the Code of Practice if it is proved that at the relevant time the Code of Practice had not been published in the Government Gazette and a copy of the Code of Practice and any incorporated document was not available for inspection.

Subsection (3) does not apply if it is proved that at the relevant time reasonable steps had been taken for the purpose of bringing the general purport of the Code of Practice to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by the Code of Practice.