Food Amendment Regulations 2008 (TAS)

Food Amendment Regulations 2008

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 Food Act 2003 .29 September 2008

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency’s Command,

LARA GIDDINGS

Minister for Health

1Short titleThese regulations may be cited as the Food Amendment Regulations 2008 . 2CommencementThese regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette. 3Principal RegulationsIn these regulations, the Food Regulations 2003 are referred to as the Principal Regulations. 4Regulation 4A insertedAfter regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted: 4AModification of Food Standards Code Notwithstanding regulation 4, the incorporation of the Food Standards Code in these regulations has effect as if Standard 3.3.1 of that Code were modified by inserting after clause 3(2) the following subclause: (3) Despite subclause (1), clause 3 of Standard 3.2.1 is to be read as not requiring a person who at 5 October 2008 is carrying on a food business to which this Standard applies to implement or comply with a food safety program until 1 June 2009. 5Expiry of provisionThe amendment to the Principal Regulations effected by regulation 4 of these regulations expires 12 months after the day on which it takes effect and, on that expiry, the Principal Regulations have effect as if that regulation had not been made.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 1 October 2008

These regulations are administered in the Department of Health and Human Services.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation) These regulations amend the