Sale of Food (Exemption for Non-Retail Food Business) Order 2018

No. S 68

Sale of Food Act

(CHAPTER 283)

Sale of Food (Exemption for
Non-Retail Food Business) Order 2018

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 54 of the Sale of Food Act, the Minister for National Development makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Sale of Food (Exemption for Non-Retail Food Business) Order 2018 and comes into operation on 1 February 2018.

Definitions

2.  In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires —

“catering establishment” means a food establishment used for the purpose of providing a catering service where —

(a) food is prepared, packed and thereafter delivered to a consumer for his or her consumption or use; or

(b) food is prepared at premises appointed by a consumer for his or her consumption or use,

except a catering establishment that is part of a non‑retail food business;

“cold store” means any premises —

(a) used for the cold storage of food intended for human consumption; and

(b) prescribed as a cold storage for the purposes of the Act;

“food establishment” means any place or any premises or part thereof used for the sale, or for the preparation or manufacture for sale, or for the storage or packing for sale, of food, whether cooked or not, intended for human consumption;

“retail food establishment” means a food establishment used for the purpose of selling food wholly by retail (whether or not the food sold is also prepared, stored or packed for sale or consumed at such premises), including —

(a) an eating establishment, such as a restaurant;

(b) a cut fruit shop;

(c) a supermarket;

(d) a market‑produce shop (including any premises used for the sale of fish or crustacean, or meat or vegetable); and

(e) a barbecue meat shop,

except a retail food establishment that is part of a non‑retail food business;

“retailer” includes any person who supplies food for the consumption or use of any other person as part of a service rendered by him or her to that person.

Exemption for non-retail food business

3.  A person who carries out a non‑retail food business is exempt from section 21 of the Act if the non‑retail food business —

(a) is not a food processing establishment where food is manufactured, processed, prepared or packed for the purpose of distribution to wholesalers and retailers, whether or not the food processing establishment also consists of a retail food establishment or a catering establishment;

(b) is not a cold store; or

(c) is authorised and carried out in accordance with a valid licence under the Wholesome Meat and Fish Act (Cap. 349A) or is exempt from needing such a licence in that Act.

Made on 31 January 2018.

OW FOONG PHENG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND 202/1-76; AG/LEGIS/SL/283/2015/3 Vol. 1]