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Food Safety and Security Act 2025 · Updated to 1 Jul 2026 · Part 2 · Strengthening Resilience of Food Supplies in Singapore

41. Saving and transitional provisions for food security

(1)

The Director‑General, Food Security may give a trigger notice to any person who immediately, before the commencement of this Part, holds a licence granted by the Price Controller or a Deputy Price Controller or an Assistant Price Controller under the Price Control Act 1950 —

(a)

that authorises the person to import, carry on any wholesale dealing, or export, a controlled article which is food; and

(b)

that is in force immediately before that commencement.

(2)

However, where a trigger notice is given in the circumstances in subsection (1) —

(a)

the trigger notice starts to be in force on the date specified in the trigger notice as the day the trigger notice comes into force, which need not be at least 6 months after the day the trigger notice is given; and

(b)

a person to whom the trigger notice is given has no right of appeal under Part 12.

(3)

For a period of 2 years after the commencement of this Part, the Minister may, by regulations in the Gazette, prescribe such additional provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Part as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.

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