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Part 3 · Import, Export and Transhipment

68. Presumption as to possession

For the purposes of sections 61, 62, 64, 65 and 66, where food is found in any premises that a person uses for —

(a)

manufacturing food of the same kind;

(b)

preparing food of the same kind;

(c)

storing, packing or labelling food of the same kind;

(d)

transporting or delivering food of the same kind;

(e)

displaying food of the same kind; or

(f)

selling food, whether or not of the same kind,then the following presumptions apply:

(g)

the food is presumed to be in the person’s possession for the purpose of supply until the contrary is proved;

(h)

the person is presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have known that the food is likely to be supplied or offered or displayed for supply.

Report

Part 4

Food Businesses

Part 5

Defined Food and Pre-Market Approval

Part 6

Provision of Non-Packaged Drinking Water

Part 7

Food Safety and Sustainable Primary Production Measures

Part 8

Offences Relating to Food Safety

Part 9

Food and Health Promotion

Part 10

Misleading or Deceptive Conduct and Other Marketing Offences

Part 11

Certain Agri-Food Production Inputs

Part 12

Appeals

Part 13

Monitoring and Enforcement

Part 14

Administration

Part 15

Regulations and Codes

Part 16

Miscellaneous

Part 17

Amendments to Other Acts and Final Provisions

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