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Food Act 2004

The Food Act 2004 (NT) is the principal Northern Territory legislation governing food safety and food businesses. It establishes licensing and registration requirements for food businesses, adopts the Australia New Zeala...
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Adoption of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code

Jul 2026
The Food Act 2004 (NT) adopts the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code as NT law, making compliance with all Code standards a legal req...
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Enforcement Powers and Offences under the Food Act 2004 (NT)

Jul 2026
The Food Act 2004 (NT) confers powers on authorised officers to inspect food businesses, issue improvement and prohibition notices, and pros...
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Food Business Registration and Licensing Requirements

Jul 2026
Food businesses operating in the NT must register or obtain approval under the Food Act 2004 and comply with conditions set by the relevant...
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Other offences for handling and selling unsafe or unsuitable food

Oct 2026
Part 3 Division 2 makes it an offence to handle food for sale in a way likely to make it unsafe or unsuitable, or to sell unsafe or unsuitab...
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Serious offences for handling or selling unsafe food and falsely describing food

Oct 2026
The Food Act 2004 (NT) makes it a serious offence to knowingly handle food unsafely, sell unsafe food, or falsely describe food in a way lik...
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Temporary regulations applying alongside or instead of the Food Standards Code

Oct 2026
Section 136 lets the Administrator make regulations that add to, or substitute for, provisions of the Food Standards Code as it applies in t...
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What counts as a food business and primary food production

Oct 2026
A food business under the Food Act 2004 (NT) is a business, enterprise or activity, other than primary food production, that involves handli...
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When food counts as unsafe or unsuitable

Oct 2026
Sections 10 and 11 of the Food Act 2004 (NT) define when food is unsafe or unsuitable for the purposes of the Act.
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