Food Safety and Security (Appeals) Rules 2025

No. S 714

Food Safety and Security Act 2025

Food Safety and Security
(Appeals) Rules 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 229 of the Food Safety and Security Act 2025, the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules are the Food Safety and Security (Appeals) Rules 2025 and come into operation on 28 November 2025.

Definitions

2.  In these Rules —

“appealable decision” means any decision specified in column 2 of the table set out in section 224(1) of the Act;

“appellant” means any person in column 3 of the table set out in section 224(1) of the Act appealing against the appealable decision specified opposite in column 2 of the table;

“authorised representative”, in relation to any appellant, means a person authorised by the appellant to represent the appellant in an appeal.

Prescribed manner of making appeal

3.—(1)  An appeal made to the Minister under section 224 of the Act must be made by sending a written notice of appeal —

(a) by email to the email address specified for this purpose in the appealable decision; or

(b) by post to the address specified for this purpose in the appealable decision.

(2)  The notice of appeal —

(a) must state —

(i) the name and address of the appellant;

(ii) the name and address of each authorised representative of the appellant, if any; and

(iii) an address in Singapore, and an email address (if any), for the service of documents;

(b) must be accompanied by a copy of the appealable decision; and

(c) must be signed and dated by —

(i) the appellant; or

(ii) any authorised representative of the appellant, on the appellant’s behalf, if the details provided in sub‑paragraph (a)(ii) relate to one or more authorised representatives of the appellant.

Prescribed period for making appeal

4.  For the purposes of section 225(1)(c) of the Act, the prescribed period is 14 days after the date of receipt of the appealable decision that is appealed against.

Minister may request for documents or information

5.  The Minister may, by written notice, require the appellant to provide, within the period specified in the notice, any document or information to enable the Minister to determine the appeal.

Consolidation

6.  Where an appellant has 2 or more appeal proceedings that —

(a) are pending; and

(b) involve the same or similar facts or issues,

the Minister may at any time, on the application of the appellant or on the Minister’s own initiative, order that the proceedings or any particular issue raised in the proceedings be consolidated or heard together.

Made on 20 November 2025.

STANLEY LOH KA LEUNG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Sustainability and
the Environment,
Singapore.

[030/01/136; AG/LEGIS/SL/111D/2025/6]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 316 of the Food Safety and Security Act 2025).