New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8F Procedure where application made to Director-General

• On receiving an application made under section 8B, the Director-General, if he or she is satisfied—

  • (a) that the applicant has adopted an appropriate food safety programme; and

  • (b) that the applicant will take all reasonable steps to comply with all relevant provisions of this Act, all relevant provisions of regulations made under this Act (other than the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974), and with all applicable food standards; and

  • (c) that the granting of the exemption is appropriate, having regard to all relevant circumstances,—

  may exempt the applicant from the provisions of the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974 in respect of any premises of the applicant, or any vehicle of the applicant, or both.

  Section 8F: inserted, on 1 July 1997, by section 3 of the Food Amendment Act (No 2) 1996 (1996 No 97).