Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00526:section:18
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00526
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 18
Character Range: 50512–51523

18  Foreign government certificates
 (1) The Secretary may determine, in writing, that a certificate issued by an instrumentality of a specified foreign government stating that food of a specified kind meets applicable standards and does not pose a risk to human health is a recognised foreign government certificate.
Note: See section 35B for how a determination may refer to a kind of food.
 (2) The Secretary may revoke a determination under subsection (1) if the Secretary has reason to doubt the continued reliability of a statement made in any certificate to which the determination relates.

Offence
 (3) A person must not forge, or utter, knowing it to be forged, a certificate of the kind referred to in subsection (1).
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

Status of instruments
 (4) A determination under subsection (1), or a revocation under subsection (2), is not a legislative instrument.

Definitions
 (5) For the purposes of this section, forge and utter have the meanings given by section 19A.