Imported Food Control Amendment (Fish, Fish Products and Uncooked Ready-to-eat Meat) Order 2016 (Cth)

Imported Food Control Amendment (Fish, Fish Products and Uncooked Ready‑to‑eat Meat) Order 2016

I, Barnaby Joyce, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, make the following order.

Dated   15 December 2016

Barnaby Joyce

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Imported Food Control Order 2001  2

1  Name

This instrument is the Imported Food Control Amendment (Fish, Fish Products and Uncooked Ready-to-eat Meat) Order 2016.

2  Commencement

(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	4 January 2017.	4 January 2017

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

(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.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under regulations 7, 8 and 12 of the Imported Food Control Regulations 1993.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Imported Food Control Order 2001

1  Suborder 3(1)

Insert:

dried meat means meat that has been dried but does not include slow cured dried meat.

sausage means a food that:

(a)  consists of meat that has been minced, meat that has been comminuted, or a mixture of both, whether or not mixed with other foods, and which has been encased or formed into discrete units; and

(b)  does not include meat formed or joined into the semblance of cuts of meat.

2  Suborder 5(1)

Omit “and 4A”, substitute “, 4A and 10”.

3  Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (table item 8)

Repeal the item, substitute:

8

Fish of the following kinds:

(a) all fish in the Family Carangidae;

(b) all fish in the Family Clupeidae;

(c) all fish in the Family Coryphaenidae;

(d) all fish in the Family Engraulidae;

(e) all fish in the Family Pomatomidae;

(f) all fish in the Family Scomberesocidae;

(g) all fish in the Family Scombridae

8A

Fish products that contain more than 300 grams per kilogram of all or any of the kinds of fish in the families mentioned in item 8

8B

Ready‑to‑eat finfish

4  Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (table item 10)

Repeal the item, substitute:

10

Ready‑to‑eat meat of the following kinds:

(a) uncooked dried meat;

(b) uncooked sausages;

(c) uncooked spreadable sausages