General Requirements (Show all)

Section 89 of the Food Act requires food businesses to register unless they are classified as exempt. Exempt food businesses include those that:

• Handle or sell food no more than 5 times a year, for no longer than 3 days each time and where the food is either:
  • non-potentially hazardous unpackaged food (e.g. plain scones, whole fruit at a festival); or
  • food sold straight after thorough cooking, for immediate consumption (e.g. barbeque stall).
• Handle or sell food in or from a food transport vehicle that is registered in another State/Territory (e.g. a food van registered in NSW).
• Transport, but do not handle or sell, food (e.g. a courier).
• Sell only non -potentially hazardous food (e.g. chemist or newsagent).
• Are not-for-profit community organisations whose food activities are staffed by volunteers for the primary purpose of raising funds for a particular community, charitable or benevolent purpose (unless they are selling food at a declared event).
• Are farms, vineyards, orchards or aquaculture farms, where the food produced is not sold or supplied directly to the public and is not processed.

If the details of a food business’ registration or operating circumstances change, the proprietor must notify the HPS in writing within 7 days of the change (see s97, Food Act). Examples of such changes include: change in proprietor; change of location; change in the kind of food business conducted; or a change in the premises’ structure, fixtures or fittings.