Tasmanian Numbered Acts

FOOD ACT 1998 (NO. 30 OF 1998) - SECT 29

29. Ensuring food is fit for human consumption

      (1) An authorised officer, by notice in writing, may require the owner or person in charge of any equipment, premises or vehicles in or with which food being manufactured for sale or supply is unfit for human consumption –

(a) to take any specified action to ensure that the food produced is fit for human consumption; or

(b) to cease the manufacture of the food.

      (2) A notice is to specify –

(a) the name of that owner or person in charge; and

(b) the equipment, premises or vehicles to which it relates; and

(c) the action to be carried out; and

(d) the period within which the action is to be carried out.

      (3) A notice is to be served on the owner or person in charge of the equipment, premises or vehicle.

      (4) A person must comply with a notice.

Penalty:

In the case of –

(a) a body corporate, a fine not exceeding 200 penalty units; and

(b) a natural person, a fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.

      (5) An authorised officer, if satisfied that at the end of the period referred to in a notice, food being manufactured is not fit for human consumption, may require the person specified in the notice to take –

(a) any action specified in section 37(2); and

(b) any other specified action.