Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

FOOD (NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION) AMENDMENT REGULATION 2012 (NO 1) (NO 36 OF 2012) - REG 12

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16A     Prescribed places for display of nutritional information for standard food outlets that are supermarkets—Act, s 110 (3) (c) and s 111 (2) (b)

    (1)     This section applies to a standard food outlet that is a supermarket.

    (2)     The places where the nutritional information mentioned in section 14 (2) (a) and section 15 (1) must be displayed in relation to a standard food item are—

        (a)     a place mentioned in section 16 (1); or

        (b)     if the nutritional information is in a nutrition information panel—on the container or wrapping enclosing the standard food item so that the nutrition information panel is—

              (i)     conspicuous to a person looking at the item; and

              (ii)     able to be seen by the person before the point of purchase without assistance from a person working at the standard food outlet.

    (3)     The places mentioned in subsection (2) (a) where nutritional information is displayed in relation to a standard food item are to be consistent with the places where that nutritional information is displayed for all of the other standard food items that are displayed with that standard food item.

    (4)     The statement mentioned in section 14 (2) (b) must be displayed at a place mentioned in section 16 (3).