Step 1 of 8
Find your route
What happens
For each site and each activity, work out which regulator you answer to and what kind of permission it wants. Do this before you sign a lease or fit out.
Good looks like
The answer is written down per site, and it covers catering, delivery and mobile work as well as the main kitchen.
How it goes wrong
A second site opens in another state on the assumption that the first state's paperwork covers it.
Who
Technical
Australia has eight routes: notify, register or license, by state or territory. New Zealand registers a plan or programme. Singapore licenses by activity: retail and catering under one Act, supplying other businesses under another. Malaysia registers the premises with the Ministry of Health, with a separate local authority licence. The table in the dossier shows each one.
cl 4; state and territory Food Acts; Food Act 2014 (NZ) s 28; Environmental Public Health Act 1987 (Singapore) s 32; Sale of Food Act 1973 (Singapore) s 21; Food Hygiene Regulations 2009 (Malaysia) reg 3