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The Melbourne Market Operating Rules ensure the Market remains a safe place for people to visit, work and trade. It is your responsibility to understand and follow these rules, which are enforced through a demerit points system connected to each employer.
Whatever your role, you have a legal duty of care to work in a manner that is not harmful to your health, safety and environment - and/or the health of others, which includes behaving in an orderly manner and keeping the Market a clean workplace.

4. Conduct on Market Land

    4. Conduct on Market Land

    4.1. Entry conditions

    A Person entering Market Land and each Market Business operating on Market Land must:

    (a) comply with these Operating Rules;

    (b) comply with any Policy and Procedure;

    (c) comply with all applicable local, State and Federal Laws (including those relating to Personal behaviour).

     

    4.2. Behaviour on Market Land

    Each Person on the Market Land and each Market Business Operating on Market Land must:

      (a) comply with all lawful directions of the MMA and Authorised Representatives;

      (b) comply with and observe all laws and requirements of local or any other government authority and the MMA relating to hygiene or usage, the general presentation and cleanliness of Leased Premises or Licensed Area; and

      (c) ensure his or her activities, Vehicles, Market Approved Vehicles or equipment remain within the acceptable noise levels as stated in the Environmental Management Plan.

     

    4.3.Prohibited conduct

    A Person on Market Land must not: (

    a) smoke unless in an area designated specifically as a smoking area and labelled as such;

    (b) selling/serving of alcohol or selling/ distribution of drugs;

    (c) consume alcohol in a Common Area, Licensed Area, Leased Premises or a Market Vehicle Park;

    (d) consume any illegal or prohibited substance or any other substance (whether legal or not) likely to impair a Person’s capacity to act in a safe and proper manner on Market Land;

    (e) sell, display or offer for sale any goods or services unless authorised in writing to do so by the MMA;

    (f) bring any Dangerous Goods onto Market Land unless authorised in writing to do so by the MMA or otherwise the subject of a general MMA authorisation;

    (g) conduct themselves in a way that causes offence to others including but not limited to using indecent or obscene language or threatening or insulting words, or otherwise behave in a threatening, abusive, riotous, disorderly, indecent, offensive or insulting manner;

    (h) commit any unlawful act;

    (i) otherwise act in a manner which may (in the opinion of an Authorised Representative) adversely affect the health or safety of an individual, themselves or the property of others;

    (j) interfere with, obstruct or hinder an Authorised Representative in the exercise of their powers, functions or duties;

    (k) damage, move or interfere with the property of the MMA including machinery, equipment, pipes, fire hoses, measuring or weighing devices, except where the property has been provided by the MMA for use by Persons on Market Land and the Person’s use of the property is consistent with the purposes for which it was provided;

    (l) remove, damage or interfere with any entry or exit control barrier or other barrier, whether movable or immovable or any Traffic Sign, notice, equipment or other MMA property;

    (m) bring any animal (other than an assistance animal accompanying a Person with impaired hearing, vision or mobility) onto Market Land;

    (n) solicit money or donations or any other thing from Persons on Market Land other than for MMA OPERATING RULES 12 raffles without the prior written consent of the MMA;

    (o) post, stick or place or attempt to post, stick or place any poster, banner, sign or advertising material on any building structure, fence, tree or cordon on Market Land without the prior written consent from the MMA;

    (p) engage in any unauthorised or unlawful act in respect of hired Pallets including but not limited to trading in stolen Pallets and/or unauthorised removal and/or theft of the same; or

    (q) have a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) over 0.00%, have in excess of any Target Concentration of illegal drugs, prescription medication or over the counter medication in their system or otherwise appears impaired or affected by the consumption of alcohol or drugs.


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