Primary Produce Safety (General) Regulations 2023
I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Primary Produce Safety Act 2011 .
19 December 2023B. BAKER
Governor
By Her Excellency's Command,
JO PALMER
Minister for Primary Industries and Water
These regulations may be cited as the Primary Produce Safety (General) Regulations 2023 .
These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.
In these regulations –Act means the Primary Produce Safety Act 2011 .
4. Application fee for food safety auditors
For the purposes of section 58(6)(b) of the Act, the prescribed fee for an application for approval to be a food safety auditor is 175 fee units.
For the purposes of section 53 of the Act –(a) an offence against a provision of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1 is prescribed as an offence for which an infringement notice may be served; and(b) a penalty specified in column 2 of the table in Schedule 1 is prescribed as the penalty for a natural person for the corresponding offence specified in column 1 of the table; and(c) a penalty specified in column 3 of the table in Schedule 1 is prescribed as the penalty for a body corporate for the corresponding offence specified in column 1 of the table.
The legislation specified in Schedule 2 is rescinded.
SCHEDULE 1 - Infringement Notice Offences
Provision of Act | Penalty – Individual (Penalty units) | Penalty – Body corporate (Penalty units) | 1. | 5 | 10 | 2. | 5 | 10 | 3. | 4 | 8 | 4. | 5 | 10 | 5. | 1 | 5 | 6. | 5 | 10 | 7. | 5 | 10 | 8. | 5 | 10 | 9. | 5 | 10 | 10. | 5 | 10 | 11. | 5 | - | 12. | 5 | 5 | 13. | 5 | 10 | 14. | 5 | 10 | 15. | 5 | 10 | 16. | 5 | 10 | 17. | 5 | 10 | 18. | 5 | - | 19. | 5 | 5 | 20. | 2 | 5 |
SCHEDULE 2 - Legislation rescinded
Primary Produce Safety (General) Regulations 2014 (No. 24 of 2014) |
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 20 December 2023
These regulations are administered in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania.