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(1) An application for the issuance of a certificate or other document referred to in section 48 of the Act must be made to the Minister in a form approved by the President.

(2) The Minister may issue a certificate or other document referred to in section 48 of the Act in respect of a food commodity that is intended for commercial use if the applicant holds a licence to export the food commodity and (a) in the case of a food, the manufacturing, preparing, storing, packaging and labelling of the food meets the applicable requirements of Part 4; (b) in the case of a food commodity referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition food commodity in section 2 of the Act, other than an animal, for which a competent authority of a foreign state requires a certificate or other document referred to in section 48 of the Act for its import into that foreign state for the purpose of human consumption, the manufacturing, preparing, storing, packaging and labelling of the food commodity meets the applicable requirements of Part 4 — other than Division 3 — as if it were a food; or (c) in the case of a food commodity referred to in subsection (3), the manufacturing, preparing, storing, packaging and labelling of the food commodity meets the applicable requirements of Part 4 — other than Division 3 — as if it were a food.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition food commodity in section 2 of the Act, any commodity that is derived from an animal or plant, or any of its parts, is a prescribed food commodity if (a) that commodity is not included in paragraph (a) or (b) of that definition; and (b) a competent authority of a foreign state requires a certificate or other document referred to in section 48 of the Act in order for that commodity to be imported into that foreign state for the purpose of human consumption.

(4) The prescribed food commodity referred to in subsection (3) is exempted from the application of any provision of the Act and these Regulations that is not necessary to give effect to this section. For greater certainty, the exemption does not include section 6 of the Act.

(5) The Minister may require that an inspection be conducted of any food commodity in respect of which a person has applied for a certificate or other document referred to in section 48 of the Act, for the purpose of deciding whether to issue the certificate or other document.

(6) If an inspection of a food commodity is required, the applicant must make the food commodity readily accessible to an inspector at the time of inspection.