Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Charges) Regulations 2025 (Cth)

Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Charges) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 18 September 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor-‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Rebecca White

Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Charges) Regulations 2025.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 October 2025.	1 October 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Food Standards Australia New Zealand Regulations 1994

1. 1

   Amendments of listed provisions—regulation 2 (definition of Authority personnel variable work cost)

The items of the table in the definition of Authority personnel variable work cost in regulation 2 listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendments relating to persons and rates for working out Authority personnel variable work cost
Item	Table item	Omit	Substitute
1	Item 1	$557	$591
2	Item 2	$502	$528
3	Item 3	$315	$328
4	Item 4	$257	$248
5	Item 5	$203	$211
6	Item 6	$182	$191
7	Item 7	$178	$187
8	Item 8	$172	$180
9	Item 9	$167	$175
10	Item 10	$159	$167
11	Item 11	$151	$158
12	Item 12	$143	$151
13	Item 13	$137	$144
14	Item 14	$131	$138
15	Item 15	$121	$128
16	Item 16	$107	$118

2

Paragraph 8(2)(b)

Omit “$22,608”, substitute “$23,697”.

1. 3

   Amendments of listed provisions—subregulation 8(2)

The items of the table in subregulation 8(2) listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendments in relation to charges relating to applications
Item	Table item	Omit	Substitute
1	Item 1	$24,120	$25,180
2	Item 2	$38,860	$40,570
3	Item 3	$56,280	$58,760
4	Item 4	$69,680	$72,750
5	Item 5	$69,680 (wherever occurring)	$72,750
6	Item 6	$108,540 (wherever occurring)	$113,320
7	Item 7	$24,120	$25,180
8	Item 8	$38,860	$40,570
9	Item 9	$56,280	$58,760
10	Item 10	$69,680	$72,750
11	Item 11	$69,680 (wherever occurring)	$72,750

4

In the appropriate position in Part 6

Insert:

15Application of amendments made by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Charges) Regulations 2025

The amendments of these Regulations made by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Charges) Regulations 2025 apply in relation to applications made on or after 1 October 2025.