Imported Food Control Amendment (Country of Origin) Act 2018

No. 20, 2018

An Act to amend the Imported Food Control Act 1992, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Imported Food Control Act 1992

Imported Food Control Amendment (Country of Origin) Act 2018

No. 20, 2018

An Act to amend the Imported Food Control Act 1992, and for related purposes

[Assented to 28 March 2018]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act is the Imported Food Control Amendment (Country of Origin) Act 2018.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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

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

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Imported Food Control Act 1992

1  Section 3 (definition of national standard)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

national standard means:

 (a) a standard that is included in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code; or

 (b) the Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016, as in force from time to time.

Note: The Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016 is an information standard made under section 134 of the Australian Consumer Law (see Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010).

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 19 October 2017

Senate on 19 March 2018]