Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Sale of Meat Products and Fish Products
22. Licensing of wholesale markets
Feedback & supportA person must not use any premises or permit any premises to be used as a wholesale market unless the person has been granted a licence by the Director‑General to use those premises as such.
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, structures, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
Any person who —
uses any premises or permits any premises to be used as a wholesale market without a licence; or
fails to comply with any of the conditions of the person’s licence,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
Sections 13, 14 and 15 apply, with the necessary modifications, to a licence required under this section as they apply to a licence required under section 11 or 12.
In this section, “wholesale market” means a place where any animal, meat product, fish or fish product is sold wholesale or through auction.