| Licence type | What's this for? |
| Register a Food Premises Class 1 | Class 1 food premises have the highest food safety risks. They mainly handle potentially hazardous food that is served to vulnerable people in hospitals, childcare centres and aged care facilities. |
| Register a Food Premises Class 2 | Class 2 food premises are those that handle unpackaged potentially hazardous foods that need correct temperature control during the food handling process - including cooking and storage - to keep them safe. |
| Register a Food Premises Class 3 | Class 3 food premises are those whose main activities involve the sale of foods not commonly associated with food poisoning, such as the supply or handling of unpackaged low risk foods, or sale of pre-packaged potentially hazardous foods that simply need refrigeration to keep them safe. |
| Notification of a Food Premises Class 4 | Class 4 food premises are those whose food handling activities pose a low risk to public health. |
| Register a Health-related Business | Health-related businesses include hairdressing, ear and body piercing, tattooists, beauty treatments and colonic irrigation. |
| Register a Prescribed Accommodation | Prescribed accommodation includes hotels, caravan parks, bed and breakfasts, rooming and boarding houses. There are additional requirements for rooming and boarding houses. See Consumer Affairs Victoria and the Registered Accommodation Association of Victoria (RAAV) for details. |
| Request to Transfer a Business | When you purchase an existing business you need to apply to Council to transfer a health-related business.
This is NOT able to be used to transfer any food business. Food businesses can no longer be transferred instead apply to register a Food Business above. |
| Request for a Pre-purchase Inspection Report | Council offers a pre-purchase inspection service, which includes an inspection of the business by a Council Environmental Health Officer and a report that details all non-compliant items relating to the Food Act 1984 or the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008. |