Australian Capital Territory
Food Regulations
SL1994-4
made under the
Food Act 1992
Republication No 0A
Effective:  28 February 1994 – 15 September 1999
Republication date: 19 July 2012
Regulation not amended

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

About this republication
The republished law
This is a republication of the Food Regulations effective 28 February 1994 to 15 September 1999.
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Australian Capital Territory

food regulations
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Updated as at 28 February 1994
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation
	1.	Citation
	2.	Commencement
	3.	Interpretation
	4.	Exemptions from licensing requirements

Citation
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Food Regulations.1
Commencement
2.1  (1)  Regulations 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which these Regulations are notified in the Gazette.
(2)  Regulation 4 commences on the day on which section 19D of the Act commences.
Interpretation
3.  In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
“the Act” means the Food Act 1992.

Exemptions from licensing requirements
4.  For the purposes of subsection 19D (2) of the Act—
	(a)	a person who carries on a food business consisting solely of—
	(i)	selling, by retail, non-perishable and pre-packaged food;
	(ii)	the transportation of food; or
	(iii)	the sale and delivery of milk to residential premises in accordance with a vendor’s permit or a vendor’s licence granted under the Milk Authority Act 1971; or
	(b)	a person who carries on business in a State (being a business in respect of which the person holds a licence or is otherwise authorised under the law of that State corresponding to the Act) and who carries on a food business consisting solely of, on not more than 2 occasions in any calendar year, selling food from a vehicle at a show, festival or other outdoor activity in the Territory of not more than 3 days duration;
is exempt from subsection 19D (1) of the Act.

NOTE
1.	Subordinate Law No. 4, 1994 (in force under the Food Act 1992); made on 24 February 1994; notified in the ACT Gazette on 28 February 1994; rr. 1-3 commenced on 28 February 1994; remainder taken to have commenced on 27 February 1994.

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