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Food Safety and Security Act 2025 s 254

s 254 Interfering with seals or markings of authorised officer, etc.

254.—(1) A person commits an offence if the person, without the express authority of an investigator —(a) intentionally alters, breaks, removes or erases any mark, seal or label; (b) intentionally opens, breaks or otherwise interferes with any lock or seal; or (c) intentionally defaces or destroys, any lock, mark, seal or label, placed by the same or another investigator or an outsourced enforcement officer, on any relevant material or other thing under section 239 or 240 or on any sample taken under section 241. (2) A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction —(a) where the person is an individual — to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both; or (b) where the person is not an individual — to a fine not exceeding $20,000.

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