Food Amendment Act 2015
An Act to amend the Food Act 2003
[Royal Assent 13 November 2015]
Be it enacted by Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Food Amendment Act 2015 .
This Act commences on a day to be proclaimed.
In this Act, the Food Act 2003 is referred to as the Principal Act.
4. Section 4 amended (Interpretation)
Section 4(1) of the Principal Act is amended as follows:(a) by inserting the following definition after the definition of label :mobile structure, in relation to a food business, means a vehicle, trailer, cart, tent, stall, booth, pontoon, table, barbeque, pizza oven, or other mobile structure, that is not permanently fixed to the whole, or part, of a building, structure or land, in, at or from which food is, or is intended to be, handled or sold;(b) by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (c) in the definition of premises :(ca) a mobile structure; or
5. Section 88 substituted
Section 88 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:88. Single certificate of registration for whole State
A certificate of registration of a food business, which is conducted in whole, or in part, in, at or from a mobile structure, issued by one council is sufficient to satisfy the requirement of registration in respect of that food business throughout the State.
This Act is repealed on the three hundred and sixty fifth day from the day on which it commences.
[Second reading presentation speech made in:
House of Assembly on 15 OCTOBER 2015
Legislative Council on 28 OCTOBER 2015]