Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00102:reg:3:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00102
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 5/28)
Character Range: 198237–200903

arrangement; or
 (d) the Secretary has given the person a written approval to alter or interfere with an official mark at a specified registered establishment and in relation to specified rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products, and the alteration or interference is in accordance with the approval.
Note 1: For how a direction may be given by an authorised officer, see section 309 of the Act.
Note 2: A person may commit an offence or be liable to a civil penalty if the person engages in conduct and the conduct has the result that an official mark applied to certain rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products or documents is altered so as to be false, misleading or deceptive (see sections 261 and 262 of the Act).

8‑25  Official marks must be legible and securely attached
  An official mark applied to rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products must be:
 (a) legible; and
 (b) securely attached.

8‑26  Security of official marks
  A person who is in possession of an official mark that has not been applied to any rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products, as permitted by section 8‑21, must ensure that the official mark is stored securely.

8‑27  Removal or defacement of official marks

Official marks generally
 (1) If an official mark has been applied to rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products, the official mark must be removed or defaced if the meat or meat products:
 (a) are no longer wholesome; or
 (b) have deteriorated.
 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), if an official mark has been applied to a carton in which rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products are packed, the official mark must be removed or defaced if it is no longer intended:
 (a) to export the meat or meat products; or
 (b) to export the meat or meat products in that carton.

Foreign country identification official marks and European Union official marks
 (3) Without limiting subsection (1), if a foreign country identification official mark or a European Union official mark has been applied to rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products, the official mark must be removed or defaced if the circumstances in which that mark may be applied to the meat or meat products, as specified by the relevant importing country authority, no longer exist.

Persons who may remove or deface official mark
 (4) If an official mark has been applied to rabbit meat, ratite meat, rabbit meat products or ratite meat products and the official mark is required to be removed or defaced