This instrument is the Automatic Mutual Recognition (South Australia) (Exemption—Regulatory Food Safety Auditors and Regulatory Safe Drinking Water Auditors) Declaration 2022.

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2022	1 July 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under section 42S of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.

4 Simplified outline of this instrument

The purpose of this instrument is to exempt registrations for occupations, or for activities covered by occupations, from the automatic deemed registration provisions of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.

This instrument has effect only in relation to South Australia.

Unless revoked earlier, this instrument will sunset under section 50 of the Legislation Act 2003 of the Commonwealth, subject to subsection 42S(6) of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth. This will generally mean that this instrument will be repealed on 1 October 2027.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.

6 Exemptions

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 42S(1)(a) of the Act, an approval in column 1 of the table in subsection (3) of this section is excluded from the operation of automatic deemed registration in South Australia.

(2) For the purposes of subsection 42S(2) of the Act, column 2 of the table in subsection (3) of this section sets out a statement of the risk to consumer protection, the environment, animal welfare or the health or safety of workers or the public in relation to each registration in column 1.

(3) The table is as follows:

Exemptions for the purposes of paragraph 42S(1)(a)
Item	Column 1 Approvals	Column 2 Statement of risk
1	Food Safety Auditors approved under Part 7, Division 1 Section 73 of the Food Act 2001 (South Australia).	A risk exists to the health and safety of the public, in particular to vulnerable persons and the wider population as a result of the adoption of automatic deemed registration under AMR as a direct consequence of the varied levels of competency and inability of interstate auditors to meet specific local requirements under the Food Act 2001 (South Australia)
2	Regulatory auditors and inspectors (drinking water) approved under Part 4, Division 1 Section 15 of the Safe Drinking Water Act 2011 (South Australia)	A risk exists to the health and safety of the public, in particular to vulnerable persons and the wider population as a result of the adoption of automatic deemed registration under AMR as a direct consequence of the varied levels of competency and inability of interstate auditors and inspectors to meet specific local requirements under the Safe Drinking Water Act 2011 (South Australia). Breaking the nexus between food and drinking water audits in businesses providing food to vulnerable people and utilising independent drinking water supplies represents a public health risk.

(4) This section is repealed at the end of 30 June 2027.