Division 2: General Requirements

General Requirements

3 Food handling - skills and knowledge

(1) A food business must ensure that persons undertaking or supervising food handling operations have

a) skills in food safety and food hygiene matters; and

b) knowledge of food safety and food hygiene matters,

commensurate with their work activities.

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to a food business in relation to persons undertaking food handling operations for fundraising events at which only food that is not potentially hazardous or is to be consumed immediately after thorough cooking is sold.

4 Notification

(1) A food business must, before the food business commences any food handling operations, notify the appropriate enforcement agency of the following information —

a) contact details for the food business including the name of the food business

b) the nature of the food business; and

c) the location of all food premises of the food business that are within the jurisdiction of the enforcement agency

(2) When complying with subclause (1), the proprietor of the food business must answer all questions asked by the appropriate enforcement agency in relation to the matters listed in subclause (1) in the form approved from time to time by the relevant authority under the act.

(3) The food business must notify the appropriate enforcement agency of any proposed change to the information specified in subclause (1) before the change occurs.