Singapore Food Agency (Assignment of Function) Notification 2023

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 29 Mar 2023

No. S 139

Singapore Food Agency Act 2019

Singapore Food Agency
(Assignment of Function)
Notification 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(3) of the Singapore Food Agency Act 2019, the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification is the Singapore Food Agency (Assignment of Function) Notification 2023 and comes into operation on 1 April 2023.

Additional function

2. The Minister for Sustainability and the Environment assigns to the Singapore Food Agency the function of supporting the Government’s ability to maintain and manage a minimum quantity of fit stocks of certain foods in Singapore to ensure food security in Singapore by undertaking, as an agent of the Government —

(a)	the procurement and holding of fit stocks of those foods; and
(b)	the distribution and disposal of the stocks of those foods.

Made on 28 March 2023.

STANLEY LOH KA LEUNG

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

[330/02/102; AG/LEGIS/SL/299C/2020/3 Vol. 1]

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