Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 96/2025

Version as at

17 November 2025

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Revocation

5Definition

6Notice of seizure and detention of an article

7Application for an order directing the release of a detained article

8Certificate of analysis of article

9Certificate of registration of food premises

10Records of registration of food premises

Schedule 1—Notice of seizure and detention of an article

Schedule 2—Application for an order directing the release of a detained article

Schedule 3—Certificate of analysis of article

Schedule 4—Certificate of registration of food premises

Schedule 5—Records of registration of food premises

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Endnotes

1     General information

2     Table of Amendments

3     Explanatory details

Version No. 001

Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 96/2025

Version as at

17 November 2025

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe the form of various documents and particulars of registered food premises required under the Food Act 1984.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 63 of the Food Act 1984.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 17 November 2025.

4Revocation

The Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2015[1] are revoked.

5Definition

In these Regulations—

the Act means the Food Act 1984.

6Notice of seizure and detention of an article

For the purposes of section 24 of the Act, the prescribed form for a notice of the seizure and detention of an article is set out in Schedule 1.

7Application for an order directing the release of a detained article

For the purposes of section 26(1) of the Act, the prescribed form for an application for an order directing the release of a detained article is set out in Schedule 2.

8Certificate of analysis of article

For the purposes of sections 31(c) and 31A(3)(a) of the Act, the prescribed form for a certificate of the analysis of an article is set out in Schedule 3.

9Certificate of registration of food premises

For the purposes of section 40(1) of the Act, the required form for a certificate of registration of a food premises is set out in Schedule 4.

10Records of registration of food premises

For the purposes of section 43(1) of the Act, the prescribed particulars for the registration or renewal of registration of a food premises are set out in Schedule 5.

SCHEDULE 1—NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND DETENTION OF AN ARTICLE

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Food Act 1984

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NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND DETENTION OF AN ARTICLE

To [insert full name]

of [insert address]

I, [insert name of authorized officer] of [insert address of authorized officer],

being an authorized officer under the Food Act 1984, give notice that I have at [time a.m./p.m.] this day seized and detained the article(s) described below.

Description of article(s):

Grounds for seizure:

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Unless you, or a person claiming the article(s), apply to the Magistrates' Court within 7 days after this seizure for an order directing the release of the detained article(s) in the form of Schedule 2 to the Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025, the seized and detained article(s) will be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.

Signature of authorized officer:

Date:

SCHEDULE 2—APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER DIRECTING THE RELEASE OF A DETAINED ARTICLE

Regulation 7

Food Act 1984

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APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER DIRECTING THE RELEASE OF A DETAINED ARTICLE

In the Magistrates' Court of Victoria at [insert venue]

I, [insert full name]

of [insert address]

apply for an order directing the release from detention of the article(s) described below and seized on [date] at [address] and detained by an authorized officer under section 21 of the Food Act 1984.

Description of article(s):

Name of authorized officer who seized and detained the article(s):

Grounds for the application:

Signature:

Date:

Notes:

1.   Any application for an order directing the release of any detained article(s) must be made within 7 days after the seizure of that article.

2.   You must immediately give a copy of this application to the authorized officer responsible for the seizure and detention of the article(s).

3.   The Magistrates' Court shall disallow the seizure and direct the release of the article(s) if the Court is satisfied that:

(a)the authorized officer did not have reasonable grounds for believing that the article(s) was in contravention of a provision of the Food Act 1984; or

(b)the article(s) was not in contravention of any provision of the Food Act 1984.

SCHEDULE 3—CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE

Regulation 8

Food Act 1984

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CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE

I, [insert full name]

of [insert address],

a person authorized under the Food Act 1984 to undertake this type of analysis, certify the matters set out below.

(1)   On [insert date of receipt of sample of article] I received from [insert name and address of person submitting sample of article]

a sample—

*sealed and with seal intact

*with seal broken

*unsealed

and marked [insert marking].

(2)I have *analysed the sample/supervised the analysis of the sample.

(3)The result of the analysis is as follows:

[insert analytical results].

*(4)I am of the opinion that no change has taken place in the constitution of the sample which would affect the proportion of any constituent set out above.

[If there is a prescribed apparatus to be used or method to be observed, insert the following:]

*I declare that I have used the prescribed apparatus or observed the prescribed method. [Insert details of prescribed apparatus or method.]

Signature of analyst:

Laboratory:

Date:

*Delete if not applicable.

SCHEDULE 4—CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES

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Food Act 1984

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CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES

Registration authority: [insert name]

This certificate of registration is granted to [insert full name and address of person(s) in whose name the premises are registered under section 40(1) of the Food Act 1984].

The registration continues in force until [insert date of expiry of registration].

Name of food business (if any):

Description of food business:

Address of food premises:

Class of food premises:

Registration authority: [signature]

Date:

SCHEDULE 5—RECORDS OF REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES

Regulation 10

Number of registration:

Date of application for registration, or renewal of registration, of food premises:

Name and address of proprietor(s):

Name of food business (if any):

Address of food premises:

Description of food business:

Date of initial registration of food premises:

Date(s) of renewal of registration of food premises (if applicable):

Conditions (if any) of registration of food premises:

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ENDNOTES

1   General information

See for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 96/2025 were made on 30 September 2025 by the Lieutenant-Governor as the Governor's deputy, with the advice of the Executive Council, under section 63 of the Food Act 1984, No. 10082/1984 and came into operation on 17 November 2025: regulation 3.

The Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 17 November 2035 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. 
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule.  Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001.  Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs.  See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note.  As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision.  For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision.  See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2   Table of Amendments

There are no amendments made to the Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

3   Explanatory details

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 132/2015.