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Bill: Food Licencing Act (2137)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Deltarian Nationalist Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2138
Description[?]:
| Too enforce laws that have already been passed regarding food labeling, contents etc... food vendors should be licenced as this may help prevent unscrupulous vendors selling foods that don't meet government standards (possibly cheaper food from a country that doesn't have this nations labelling standards) Licencing would also generate a small income for the government as applicants must pay an administration charge. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Licensing of food sales.
Old value:: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Current: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Proposed: Food may be sold by licensed vendors only, and shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:08:42, November 07, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Food Licencing Act (2137) |
| Message | "possibly cheaper food from a country that doesn't have this nations labelling standards" - All food must be labelled according to Hobrazian regulations to be sold here. "a small income for the government as applicants must pay an administration charge." - Plus a large cost from the extra bureaucracy. "food vendors should be licenced as this may help prevent unscrupulous vendors selling foods that don't meet government standards" - A kids holding charity cake sales |
| Date | 19:27:04, November 07, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Food Licencing Act (2137) |
| Message | ""possibly cheaper food from a country that doesn't have this nations labelling standards" - All food must be labelled according to Hobrazian regulations to be sold here. " i.e. someone possibly smuggling certain goods into the country from Luthori or Malivia thathave not been labeled yet to meet our standards. ""a small income for the government as applicants must pay an administration charge." - Plus a large cost from the extra bureaucracy. " Sorry should have said profit, licencing costs will cover admin costs and all holders need to re-apply every year. ""food vendors should be licenced as this may help prevent unscrupulous vendors selling foods that don't meet government standards" - A kids holding charity cake sales " Special temporary licences could be granted and for charity events they could be free. Much the same how places such as church halls can apply for temporary licences to serve alcohol at functions (wedding receptions, anniversaries, wakes etc....) But i'm sure licencing committees could quickly process an application from a school. Or better yet, all government buildings are exempt as they will follow government guidlines to start with. |
| Date | 19:43:30, November 07, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Food Licencing Act (2137) |
| Message | "someone possibly smuggling certain goods into the country" - The only goods that would be smuggled are those that we impose higher taxes than our neighbours on or contain banned ingredients. That would be illegal for different reasons and licencing would make no difference to. |
| Date | 19:58:13, November 07, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Food Licencing Act (2137) |
| Message | A licence would not be given to just anyone. Certain criteria would have to be met such as a clean criminal record or one which contains only minor crimes. A vendor will have to be an honest member of the community. An example of the kind of thing that could be sold by a rogue vendor would be 'smokies' (a halal slaughtered goat/sheep/lamb that is cooked on the surface using a blow torch) This is a food product that is illegal in almost every western country but there are still traders who will sell this and if someone under my proposed law was caught selling this they would have their licence revoked for life and fined. |
| Date | 20:05:07, November 07, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Food Licencing Act (2137) |
| Message | Even if caught would a licence removal stop them? Would they even have one in the first place? If a vendor was caught selling illegal products under the current laws then they could still be punished appropriately and licencing would not change that. |
| Date | 20:12:10, November 07, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Food Licencing Act (2137) |
| Message | It would add to their convictions. It would mean stricter regulation of town markets also. |
| Date | 05:19:41, November 08, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Food Licencing Act (2137) |
| Message | Didn't we just go through all of this? This proposal makes no sense, it's unenforcable unless we hire 100,000 food license checkers which would be a waste of everybody' time. No. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 90 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 176 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 134 |
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