You do not need a licence for these activities.

• Selling pre-packaged food only.
• Selling whole fruit and vegetables only.
• Production of primary produce such as milk or meat at a butcher, with accreditation. Refer to the Food Production (Safety) Act 2000 for more information.
• Selling drinks such as tea, coffee and soft drinks.
• Selling alcohol. A liquor licence may be required to sell alcohol.
• Selling pre-packaged fruit or vegetable juice. You do not need a food business licence for fruit and vegetable juice not prepared at the place of sale (e.g. ginger juice manufactured elsewhere), but you will need to comply with labelling requirements, and you may need a food manufacturer licence.
• Selling snack foods that are not potentially hazardous:
  • biscuits and cakes (without fresh cream or custard in the filling or icing)
  • carob
  • chocolate bars
  • chocolates
  • churros
  • confectionary
  • corn chips and potato chips
  • crackers
  • croissants
  • doughnuts
  • dried or glazed fruit
  • dried vegetable chips
  • friands
  • meat jerky (pre-packaged)
  • muesli bars
  • muffins (without fresh cream or custard in the filling or icing)
  • nuts
  • popcorn
  • pretzels
  • puffed rice
  • soy chips
  • toasted corn.
• Selling seeds, spices and dried herbs.
• Selling tea leaves.
• Selling coffee beans and ground coffee.
• Grinding coffee beans.
• Selling ice and flavoured ice.
• Selling the following foods when they are not potentially hazardous:
  • cereals
  • cocoa
  • coconut
  • uncooked couscous
  • crushed, puffed or toasted nuts, grains and seeds
  • edible oil, for example, olive oil, vegetable oil and macadamia oil
  • flour
  • legumes
  • lentils
  • noodles
  • oats
  • uncooked pasta
  • preparations for spreading on bread, for example, honey, peanut butter, hazelnut spread, Vegemite, jam and marmalade
  • quinoa
  • sugar
  • syrups, for example, golden syrup, maple syrup, rice syrup, malt syrup, glucose syrup and coconut syrup.

You may not need a food business licence for the activities listed but you still need to comply with the Food Act 2006.