Meat Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Regulations    1988    No. 4¹

Meat Regulations² (Amendment)

I, GARY FRANCIS PUNCH, the Minister of State for the Arts and Territories, hereby make the following Regulations under the Meat Ordinance 1931.

Dated 10 April 1988.

GARY PUNCH

Minister of State for the Arts and Territories

Slaughter at an abbatoir

1.  Regulation 4 of the Meat Regulations is amended by omitting “Chairman” and substituting “General Manager”.

Permit to slaughter

2.  Regulation 5 of the Meat Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulations (1), (3) and (7) “Chairman” and substituting “General Manager”.

Importation of meat

3.  Regulation 6 of the Meat Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulations (1), (2) and (4) “Chairman” (wherever occurring) and substituting “General Manager”.

Insertion

4.  After regulation 6 of the Meat Regulations the following regulations are inserted:

Notification of decisions

“7.  (1)  Where the General Manager makes a decision—

(a)refusing to grant a permit to slaughter at an abbatoir;

(b)imposing conditions on a permit to slaughter at an abbatoir;

(c)suspending or revoking a permit to slaughter at an abbatoir;

(d)refusing to renew a permit to slaughter at an abbatoir;

(e)refusing to transfer a permit to slaughter at an abbatoir;

(f)refusing to approve premises for the purpose of subregulation 6 (1); or

(g)refusing to renew the approval of premises for the purpose of subregulation 6 (1);

the General Manager shall, by notice in writing given not later than 28 days after the decision, inform a person whose interests are affected by the decision of the making of the decision.

“(2)  A notice under subregulation (1) shall—

(a)include a statement to the effect that subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, an application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of the decision to which the notice relates; and

(b)except where subsection 28 (4) of that Act applies—include a statement to the effect that a person whose interests are affected by the decision may request a statement pursuant to section 28 of that Act.

“(3)  The validity of a decision referred to in subregulation (1) shall not be taken to be affected by a failure to comply with subregulation (2).

Review of decisions

“8.  Application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of a decision of the General Manager referred to in subregulation 7 (1).”.

The Schedule

5.  The Schedule to the Meat Regulations is amended by omitting from Forms A and B “Chairman, Capital Territory Health Commission” and substituting “General Manager, Australian Capital Territory Health Authority”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 May 1988.

2. Regulations notified in the Gazette on 30 July 1931 as amended by Regulations notified in the Gazette on 27 August 1931, 10 March 1932, 4 January 1934, 2 April 1936, 22 December 1938 and by Regulations 1945 No. 1; 1953 No. 5; 1970 No. 3; 1971 No. 14; 1975 No. 31; 1976 No. 20; 1978 No. 16; 1979 No. 21; 1980 No. 3; 1985 No. 15.