TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS


                          TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974
                                 No. 51 of 1974

                             TABLE OF PROVISIONS

                              PART I-PRELIMINARY
Section
  1.        Short title
  2.        Commencement
  3.        Repeal
  4.        Interpretation
  5.        Extended application of Parts IV and V
  6.        Additional operation of Act

                         PART II-THE TRADE PRACTICES COMMISSION

  7.        Constitution of Commission
  8.        Terms and conditions of appointment
  9.        Remuneration of members of Commission
  10.       Deputy Chairman
  11.       Acting Chairman
  12.       Leave of absence
  13.       Termination of appointment
  14.       Retirement
  15.       Resignation
  16.       Arrangement of business
  17.       Disclosure of financial interests of members of Commission
  18.       Meetings of Commission
  19.       Chairman may direct Commission to sit in Divisions
  20.       Power to take evidence on oath
  21.       Procedure at public hearings by Commission
  22.       Hearing in private in certain circumstances
  23.       Evidence in form of written statement
  24.       Representation at public hearings by Commission
  25.       Delegation by Commission
  26.       Rights of public servant appointed as Chairman or full-time member
  27.       Staff of Commission
  28.       Functions of Commission in relation to dissemination of information,
            law reform and research
  29.       Commission to comply with directions of Attorney-General and
            requirements of Parliament

                         PART III-THE TRADE PRACTICES TRIBUNAL

  30.       Constitution of Tribunal
  31.       Qualifications of members of Tribunal
  32.       Terms and conditions of appointment
  33.       Remuneration of members of Tribunal
  34.       Acting appointments
  35.       Suspension and removal of members of Tribunal
  36.       Resignation
  37.       Constitution of Tribunal for particular matters
  38.       Validity of determinations
  39.       Arrangement of business
  40.       Disclosure of financial interests of members of Tribunal
  41.       Presidential member to preside
  42.       Decision of questions
  43.       Member of Tribunal ceasing to be available
  44.       Staff of Tribunal

                           PART IV-RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES

  45.       Contracts, arrangements or understandings in restraint of trade or
            commerce
  46.       Monopolization
  47.       Exclusive dealing
  48.       Resale price maintenance
  49.       Price discrimination
  50.       Mergers
  51.       Exceptions

                                PART V-CONSUMER PROTECTION

                                Division 1-Unfair Practices

  52.       Misleading or deceptive conduct
  53.       False representations
  54.       Offering gifts and prizes

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  55.       Misleading conduct to which Industrial Property Convention applies
  56.       Bait advertising
  57.       Referral selling
  58.       Accepting payment without intending to supply as ordered
  59.       Misleading statements about home-operated businesses
  60.       Coercion at place of residence
  61.       Pyramid selling
  62.       Product safety standards
  63.       Product information standards
  64.       Assertion of right to payment for unsolicited goods or for making
            entry in directory
  65.       Liability of recipient of unsolicited goods

               Division 2-Conditions and Warranties in Consumer Transactions

  66.       Interpretation
  67.       Conflict of laws
  68.       Application of Division to contracts not to be excluded or modified
  69.       Implied undertakings as to title, encumbrances and quiet possession
  70.       Supply by description
  71.       Implied undertakings as to quality or fitness
  72.       Supply by sample
  73.       Liability for loss or damage from breach of certain contracts
  74.       Warranties in relation to the supply of services

                                  Division 3-Miscellaneous

  75.       Saving of other laws and remedies

                            PART VI-ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES

  76.       Pecuniary penalties
  77.       Civil action for recovery of pecuniary penalties
  78.       Criminal proceedings not to be brought for contraventions of Part IV
  79.       Offences against Part V
  80.       Injunctions
  81.       Divestiture
  82.       Actions for damages
  83.       Finding in proceedings to be evidence
  84.       Acts done by servants or agents of body corporate
  85.       Defences
  86.       Jurisdiction of Court
  87.       Ancillary orders

                 PART VII-AUTHORIZATIONS AND CLEARANCES IN RESPECT OF
                               RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES

                                 Division 1-Authorizations

  88.       Power of Commission to grant authorizations
  89.       Procedure for applications
  90.       Determination of applications for authorizations
  91.       Grant, revocation and variation of authorizations

                                   Division 2-Clearances

  92.       Clearance of contracts, arrangements or understandings in restraint
            of trade or commerce
  93.       Clearance of exclusive dealing
  94.       Clearance of mergers
  95.       Register in relation to clearances

                           PART VIII-RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE

  96.       Acts constituting engaging in resale price maintenance
  97.       Recommended prices
  98.       Withholding the supply of goods
  99.       Statements as to the minimum price of goods
 100.       Evidentiary provisions

                   PART IX-REVIEW BY TRIBUNAL OF DETERMINATIONS OF
                                         COMMISSION

                             Division 1-Applications for Review

 101.       Applications for review
 102.       Functions and powers of Tribunal

                             Division 2-Procedure and Evidence


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 103.       Procedure generally
 104.       Regulations as to certain matters
 105.       Power to take evidence on oath
 106.       Hearings to be in public except in special circumstances
 107.       Evidence in form of written statement
 108.       Taking of evidence by single member
 109.       Participants in proceedings before Tribunal
 110.       Representation

                             PART X-OVERSEAS CARGO SHIPPING

                                   Division 1-Preliminary

 111.       Interpretation
 112.       Part IV not to apply
 113.       Agreements to which Part applies
 114.       Shipowners may be required to be represented by agent and give
            address for service

                         Division 2-Filing of Conference Agreements

 115.       Clerk of Shipping Agreements
 116.       Agreements subject to filing
 117.       Particulars to be furnished of certain agreements, variations and
            determinations
 118.       Failure to furnish particulars to be an offence
 119.       Clerk to file particulars
 120.       Filed documents to be evidence
 121.       Secrecy

                   Division 3-Powers in relation to Conference Agreements
 122.       Minister may request undertakings
 123.       Disapproval of agreements
 124.       Effect of disapproval
 125.       Reinstatement of disapproved agreement or approval of substituted
            agreement
 126.       Injunctions
 127.       Publication and commencement of orders

                   Division 4-Powers in relation to Individual Shipowners

 128.       Minister may request undertakings
 129.       Declaration of shipowners
 130.       Prohibitions applicable to declared shipowner
 131.       Injunctions

                                     Division 5-General

 132.       Minister may refer certain matters to Tribunal
 133.       Minister to consult with shipowners before making reference
 134.       Representation
 135.       Undertakings to Tribunal
 136.       Failure to comply with undertaking to be contempt of Tribunal
 137.       Punishment of contempt
 138.       Protection of certain persons
 139.       Publication of reports of Tribunal
 140.       Institution of prosecutions
 141.       Aiding and abetting
 142.       Protection of certain persons
 143.       Constitution of Court

              Division 6-Civil Remedies in relation to Overseas Cargo Shipping

 144.       Actions for damages
 145.       Deferment of action on application of Minister
 146.       Findings in contempt proceedings to be evidence

                                   PART XI-TRANSITIONAL

 147.       Continuation of certain appointments and proceedings
 148.       Commission may retain certain documents
 149.       Secrecy in relation to documents furnished under previous law
 150.       Certain notices continued
 151.       Particulars of agreements continued
 152.       Repository of documents continued
 153.       Extension of section 121
 154.       Undertakings continued

                                  PART XII-MISCELLANEOUS


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 155.       Power of Commission to obtain information, documents and evidence
 156.       Inspection of documents by Commission
 157.       Disclosure of documents by Commission
 158.       Protection of members of Tribunal or Commission, barristers and
            witnesses
 159.       Incriminating answers
 160.       Failure of witness to attend
 161.       Refusal to be sworn or to answer questions
 162.       Contempt of Tribunal or Commission
 163.       Prosecutions
 164.       Proceedings by Commission to be in its official name
 165.       Inspection of, furnishing of copies of, and evidence of, documents
 166.       Certificates as to furnishing of particulars of agreements
 167.       Judicial notice
 168.       Presumption that bodies corporate not related
 169.       Temporary exercise of jurisdiction by Australian Industrial Court
 170.       Legal and financial assistance
 171.       Annual report by Commission
 172.       Regulations

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - LONG TITLE

                          TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974
                                 No. 51 of 1974

                  An Act relating to certain Trade Practices.

  BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of
Australia, as follows:-

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART I
                              PART I-PRELIMINARY


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 1.
Short title.

  1. This Act may be cited as the Trade Practices Act 1974.*

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 2.
Commencement.

  2. (1) Sections 1 and 2 shall come into operation on the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.*
  (2) Section 55 shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by
Proclamation, being a date not earlier than the date on which the Paris
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as revised at Stockholm
on 14 July 1967 enters into force for Australia.
  (3) Subject to sub-section (4), the remaining provisions of this Act shall
come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.
  (4) Sub-sections 45 (1) and (2), except so far as they relate to contracts,
arrangements and understandings referred to in sub-section 88 (2), and
sub-sections 47 (1) and 49 (1), shall not come into operation until the
expiration of 4 months after the date fixed under sub-section (3).
  (5) A reference in sub-section 45 (1) or (2) to the commencement of the
sub-section concerned shall be read-

  (a)  for the purposes of the application of the sub-section concerned in
relation to a contract, arrangement or understanding referred to in
sub-section 88 (2)-as a reference to the date fixed under sub-section (3) of
this section; and

  (b)  for the purposes of the application of the sub-section concerned in
relation to any other contract, arrangement or understanding-as a reference to
the expiration of the period referred to in sub-section (4) of this section.
  (6) The power of the Governor-General to make appointments of members of the
Commission or to make regulations under this Act may be exercised at any time
after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent but any appointment
or regulation so made shall not take effect until the date fixed under
sub-section (3).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 3.
Repeal.

  3. The Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 and the Restrictive Trade
Practices Act 1972 are repealed.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 4.
Interpretation.

  4. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

  "authorization" means an authorization under Division 1 of Part VII granted
by the Commission or by the Tribunal on a review of a determination of the
Commission;

  "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Commission and includes a person acting
as Chairman of the Commission;

  "commencing date" means the date fixed under sub-section 2 (3);

  "Commission" means the Trade Practices Commission established by this Act,

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and includes a member of that Commission or a Division of that Commission
performing functions of that Commission;

  "Companies Ordinance" means the Companies Ordinance 1962-1974 of the
Australian Capital Territory;

  "competition" includes competition from imported goods or from services
rendered by persons not resident or not carrying on business in Australia;

  "conduct", when used as a noun, includes doing, refusing to do, or
refraining from doing, any act, including making a contract or arrangement or
entering into an understanding;

  "corporation" means a body corporate that-

     (a)  is a foreign corporation;

     (b)  is a trading corporation formed within the limits of Australia or is
a financial corporation so formed;
     (c)  is incorporated in a Territory; or

     (d)  is the holding company of a body corporate of a kind referred to in
paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

  "Court" means the Superior Court of Australia;

  "Deputy Chairman" means the Deputy Chairman of the Commission;

  "Deputy President" means a Deputy President of the Tribunal, and includes a
person appointed to act as a Deputy President of the Tribunal;

  "Deputy Registrar" means a Deputy Registrar of the Tribunal, and includes a
person appointed to act as a Deputy Registrar of the Tribunal;

  "document" includes-

     (a)  a book, plan, paper, parchment or other material on which there is
writing or printing, or on which there are marks, symbols or perforations
having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them; and

     (b)  a disc, tape, paper or other device from which sounds or messages
are capable of being reproduced;

  "engage in conduct" includes do, refuse to do, or refrain from doing, any
act, including the making of a contract or arrangement or the entering into an
understanding, and "engaging in conduct" has a corresponding meaning;

  "financial corporation" means a financial corporation within the meaning of
paragraph 51 (xx) of the Constitution and includes a body corporate that
carries on the business of banking or insurance as its sole or principal
business;

  "foreign corporation" means a foreign corporation within the meaning of
paragraph 51 (xx) of the Constitution and includes a body corporate that is
incorporated in an external Territory;

  "full-time member of the Commission" means a member of the Commission who is
appointed as a full-time member of the Commission;

  "give effect to", in relation to a contract, arrangement or understanding,
includes do an act or thing in pursuance of or in accordance with or enforce
or purport to enforce;

  "goods" includes-

     (a)  ships, aircraft and other vehicles;

     (b)  animals, including fish;

     (c)  minerals, trees and crops, whether on, under or attached to land or
not; and

     (d)  gas and electricity;

  "market" means a market in Australia;

  "meeting", in relation to the Commission, includes a public hearing held by
the Commission;

  "member of the Commission" includes the Chairman and a person appointed to

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act as a member of the Commission;

  "member of the Tribunal" includes the President and a person appointed to
act as a member of the Tribunal;

  "person" includes a body corporate, whether a corporation or not, as well as
a natural person;

  "practice of exclusive dealing" means the practice of exclusive dealing
referred to in sub-section 47 (2), (3) or (4);

  "practice of resale price maintenance" means the practice of resale price
maintenance referred to in Part VIII;

  "President" means the President of the Tribunal and includes a person
appointed to act as President of the Tribunal;

  "presidential member" or "presidential member of the Tribunal" means
President or a Deputy President;

  "price" includes a charge of any description;

  "Registrar" means the Registrar of the Tribunal and includes a person
appointed to act as the Registrar of the Tribunal;

  "send" includes deliver, and "sent" and "sender" have corresponding
meanings; 

  "services" includes, without limiting the generality of that expression, the
rights or benefits that are to be provided under-

     (a)  a contract for-

         (i)  the performance of work (including work of a professional nature
but not including work under a contract of service), whether with or without
the supply of goods;

        (ii)  the provision of, or of the use or enjoyment of facilities for,
amusement, entertainment, recreation or instruction; or

        (iii)  the conferring of rights or privileges for which remuneration
is payable in the form of a royalty, tribute, levy or similar exaction;

     (b)  a contract of insurance; or

     (c)  a contract between a banker and a customer of the banker entered
into in the course of the carrying on by the banker of the business of
banking, or any other contract for or in relation to the loan of moneys;

  "share" includes an interest in a share, and also includes stock or an
interest in stock;

  "special price", in relation to an advertisement for the supply of goods or
services, means-

     (a)  a price that is represented in the advertisement to be a special or
bargain price, by reference to an ordinary price or otherwise; or

     (b)  a price that a person who reads, hears or sees the advertisement
would reasonably understand to be a special or bargain price having regard to
the prices at which the goods or services advertised or like goods or services
are ordinarily supplied;

  "supply", when used as a verb, includes-

     (a)  in relation to goods-supply (including re-supply) by way of sale,
exchange, lease, hire or hire-purchase; and

     (b)  in relation to services-provide, grant or confer,

    and, when used as a noun, has a corresponding meaning, and "supplied" and
"supplier" have corresponding meanings;

  "Territory" means an internal Territory;

  "trade or commerce" means trade or commerce within Australia or between
Australia and places outside Australia;

  "trading corporation" means a trading corporation within the meaning of
paragraph 51 (xx) of the Constitution;

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  "Tribunal" means the Trade Practices Tribunal continued in existence by this
Act, and includes a member of that Tribunal or a Division of that Tribunal
performing functions of that Tribunal;

  "unsolicited goods" means goods sent to a person without any request made by
him or on his behalf.
  (2) For the purposes of this Act-

  (a)  the question whether a body corporate is the holding company of another
body corporate shall be determined in the same manner as the question whether
a corporation is the holding company of another corporation is determined
under the Companies Ordinance; and

  (b)  the question whether corporations or other bodies corporate are related
to each other shall be determined in the same manner as the question whether
corporations are related to each other is determined under the Companies
Ordinance.
  (3) For the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

  (a)  a person who acquires goods shall be taken to be a consumer of the
goods if the goods are of a kind ordinarily acquired for private use or
consumption and the person does not acquire the goods or hold himself out as
acquiring the goods for the purposes of re-supply; and

  (b)  a person who acquires services shall be taken to be a consumer of the
services if the services are of a kind ordinarily acquired for private use or
consumption and the person does not acquire the services for the purposes of,
or in the course of, a profession, business, trade or occupation or for a
public purpose.
  (4) Where it is alleged in any proceeding under this Act that a person was a
consumer in relation to particular goods or services, it shall be presumed,
unless the contrary is established, that the person was a consumer in relation
to those goods or services.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 5.
Extended application of Parts IV and V.

  5. (1) Parts IV and V extend to the engaging in conduct outside Australia by
bodies corporate incorporated or carrying on business within Australia or by
Australian citizens or persons ordinarily resident within Australia.
  (2) In addition to the extended operation that sections 47 and 48 have by
virtue of sub-section (1), those sections extend to the engaging in conduct
outside Australia by any persons in relation to the supply by those persons of
goods or services to persons within Australia.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 6.
Additional operation of Act.

  6. (1) Without prejudice to its effect apart from this section, this Act
also has effect as provided by this section.
  (2) This Act, other than Part X, has, by force of this sub-section, the
effect it would have if-

  (a)  any references in this Act other than in section 55 to trade or
commerce were, by express provision, confined to trade or commerce-

      (i)  between Australia and places outside Australia;

     (ii)  among the States;

     (iii)  within a Territory, between a State and a Territory or between two
Territories; or

     (iv)  by way of the supply of goods or services to Australia or an
authority or instrumentality of Australia;

  (b)  section 46, Part V (other than section 55) and Part VIII were, by
express provision, confined in their operation to engaging in conduct to the
extent to which the conduct takes place in the course of or in relation to-

      (i)  trade or commerce between Australia and places outside Australia;

     (ii)  trade or commerce among the States;

     (iii)  trade or commerce within a Territory, between a State and a
Territory or between two Territories; or

     (iv)  the supply of goods or services to Australia or an authority or
instrumentality of Australia;

  (c)  any reference in Division 2 of Part V to a contract for the supply of
goods or services were, by express provision, confined to a contract made-


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      (i)  in the course of, or in relation to, trade or commerce between
Australia and places outside Australia;

     (ii)  in the course of, or in relation to, trade or commerce among the
States; or

     (iii)  in the course of, or in relation to, trade or commerce within a
Territory, between a State and a Territory or between two Territories;

  (d)  in sub-sections 45 (1) and 87 (3) the words "in so far as it confers
rights or benefits or imposes duties or obligations on a corporation" were
omitted;

  (e)  a reference to a corporation in sub-section 46 (2) included a reference
to a body corporate not being a corporation;

  (f)  in section 60 the words "cause or permit a servant or agent of the
corporation to" were omitted;

  (g)  sub-section 96 (2) were omitted; and

  (h)  subject to paragraphs (d), (e), (f) and (g), a reference in this Act to
a corporation, except a reference in section 4, 48, 50 or 81, sub-section 88
(7) or 89 (7) or section 94, included a reference to a person not being a
corporation.
  (3) In addition to the effect that this Act, other than Part X, has as
provided by sub-section (2), Division 1 of Part V has, by force of this
sub-section, the effect it would have if-

  (a)  that Division (other than section 55) were, by express provision,
confined in its operation to engaging in conduct to the extent to which the
conduct involves the use of postal, telegraphic or telephonic services or
takes place in a radio or television broadcast;

  (b)  in section 60 the words "cause or permit a servant or agent of the
corporation to" were omitted; and

  (c)  subject to paragraph (b), a reference in that Division to a corporation
included a reference to a person not being a corporation.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART II
                   PART II-THE TRADE PRACTICES COMMISSION


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 7.
Constitution of Commission.

  7. (1) There is hereby established a Trade Practices Commission, which shall
consist of a Chairman and such number of other members as are from time to
time appointed in accordance with this Act.
  (2) The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the
Governor-General. 
  (3) A member of the Commission other than the Chairman may be appointed as a
full-time member or as a part-time member.
  (4) For the purposes of sub-sections 4 (3A) and (4) of the Superannuation
Act 1922-1973 the Chairman and the full-time members of the Commission shall
each be deemed to be required, by the terms of his appointment, to give the
whole of his time to the duties of his office.
  (5) A person shall not be appointed as a member of the Commission unless he
appears to the Governor-General to be qualified for appointment by virtue of
his knowledge of, or experience in, industry, commerce or public
administration.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 8.
Terms and conditions of appointment.

  8. (1) Subject to this Part, a member of the Commission holds office for
such period, not exceeding 7 years, as is specified in the instrument of his
appointment and on such terms and conditions as the Governor-General
determines, but is eligible for re-appointment.
  (2) A person who has attained the age of 65 years shall not be appointed or
re-appointed as the Chairman or as a full-time member of the Commission, and a
person shall not be appointed or re-appointed as the Chairman or as a
full-time member of the Commission for a period that extends beyond the date
on which he will attain the age of 65 years.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 9.
Remuneration of members of Commission.

  9. (1) A member of the Commission shall be paid such remuneration as is
determined by the Remuneration Tribunal, but, until that remuneration is so
determined, he shall be paid such remuneration as is prescribed.
  (2) Subject to the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973, a member of the
Commission shall be paid such allowances as are prescribed.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 10.
Deputy Chairman.

  10. (1) The Governor-General may appoint a person who is, or is to be, a
full-time member of the Commission to be the Deputy Chairman of the

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Commission. 
  (2) A person appointed under this section holds office as Deputy Chairman
until the expiration of his period of appointment as a member of the
Commission or until he sooner ceases to be a member of the Commission.
  (3) Where a member of the Commission appointed as Deputy Chairman is, upon
ceasing to be Deputy Chairman by virtue of the expiration of the period of his
appointment as a member, re-appointed as a member, he is eligible for
re-appointment as Deputy Chairman.
  (4) The Deputy Chairman may resign his office of Deputy Chairman by writing
signed by him and delivered to the Governor-General.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 11.
Acting Chairman.

  11. (1) Where there is a vacancy in the office of Chairman, the
Governor-General may appoint a person to act as Chairman until the filling of
the vacancy.
  (2) Where the Chairman is absent from duty or from Australia-

  (a)  the Deputy Chairman shall act as Chairman during the absence; or

  (b)  if there is no Deputy Chairman or the Deputy Chairman is not available
to act as Chairman, the Attorney-General may appoint a member of the
Commission to act as Chairman during the absence of the Chairman, but any such
appointment ceases to have effect if a person is appointed as Deputy Chairman
or the Deputy Chairman becomes available to act as Chairman.
  (3) A person acting as Chairman shall act in that capacity on such terms and
conditions as the Governor-General determines and has all the powers and
duties, and shall perform all the functions, conferred on the Chairman by this
Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 12.
Leave of absence.

  12. The Attorney-General may grant leave of absence to the Chairman or a
full-time member of the Commission upon such terms and conditions as to
remuneration or otherwise as the Attorney-General determines.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 13.
Termination of appointment.

  13. (1) The Governor-General may terminate the appointment of a member of
the Commission by reason of misbehaviour or physical or mental incapacity.
  (2) If-

  (a)  a member of the Commission-

      (i)  becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the
relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with his creditors or makes
an assignment of his remuneration for their benefit; or

     (ii)  fails to comply with his obligations under section 17; or

  (b)  the Chairman or a full-time member of the Commission-

      (i)  engages in any paid employment outside the duties of his office;
or

     (ii)  is absent from duty, except on leave of absence granted by the
Attorney-General, for 14 consecutive days or for 28 days in any 12 months,
the Governor-General shall terminate the appointment of the member of the
Commission concerned.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 14.
Retirement.

  14. The termination of the appointment of the Chairman or of a full-time
member of the Commission by reason of physical or mental incapacity shall be
deemed, for the purposes of the Superannuation Act 1922-1973, to be retirement
on the ground of invalidity.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 15.
Resignation.

  15. A member of the Commission may resign his office by writing signed by
him and delivered to the Governor-General.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 16.
Arrangement of business.

  16. The Chairman may give directions as to the arrangement of the business
of the Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 17.
Disclosure of financial interests of members of Commission.

  17. (1) Where a member of the Commission other than the Chairman has or
acquires any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any business carried on
in Australia, or in any body corporate carrying on any such business, being an
interest that could be in conflict with his duties as a member, the member
shall, to the best of his knowledge, disclose that interest to the Chairman.
  (2) Where an interest is so disclosed to the Chairman and-

  (a)  in the case of an interest in a business-the person carrying on the

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business; or

  (b)  in the case of an interest in a body corporate-that body corporate, is
concerned in an application before the Commission, being an application in the
hearing and determination of which the member who has the interest is or will
be participating, the Chairman shall cause the interest to be disclosed to the
public.
  (3) The Chairman shall give written notice to the Attorney-General of all
direct and indirect pecuniary interests that he has or acquires in any
business carried on in Australia or in any body corporate carrying on any such
business. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 18.
Meetings of Commission.

  18. (1) Subject to this section, the Chairman shall convene such meetings of
the Commission as he thinks necessary for the efficient performance of the
functions of the Commission.
  (2) Meetings of the Commission shall be held at such places as the Chairman
determines.
  (3) The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Commission at which he
is present.
  (4) In the absence of the Chairman from a meeting of the Commission, the
Deputy Chairman shall preside.
  (5) Subject to this Act and the regulations, the member presiding at a
meeting of the Commission may give directions regarding the procedure to be
followed at or in connexion with the meeting.
  (6) At a meeting of the Commission-

  (a)  three members (including the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman) form a
quorum;

  (b)  all questions shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members
present and voting; and

  (c)  the member presiding has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an
equality of votes, also has a casting vote.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 19.
Chairman may direct Commission to sit in Divisions.

  19. (1) The Chairman may, by writing signed by him, direct that the powers
of the Commission under this Act in relation to a matter shall be exercised by
a Division of the Commission constituted by the Chairman and such other
members (not being less than two in number) as are specified in the
direction.
  (2) Where the Chairman has given a direction under sub-section (1), he may,
by writing signed by him, at any time before the Division of the Commission
specified in the direction has made a determination in relation to the matter,
revoke the direction or amend the direction in relation to the membership of
the Division or in any other respect, and where the membership of a Division
of the Commission is changed, the Division as constituted after the change may
complete the determination of the matter.
  (3) For the purposes of the determination of a matter specified in a
direction given under sub-section (1), the Commission shall be deemed to
consist of the Division of the Commission specified in the direction.
  (4) The Chairman is not required to attend a meeting of a Division of the
Commission if he does not think fit to do so.
  (5) At a meeting of a Division of the Commission at which neither the
Chairman nor the Deputy Chairman is present, a member of the Commission
nominated for the purpose by the Chairman shall preside.
  (6) Notwithstanding section 18, at a meeting of a Division of the
Commission, two members form a quorum.
  (7) A Division of the Commission may exercise powers of the Commission under
this Act notwithstanding that another Division of the Commission is exercising
powers of the Commission at the same time.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 20.
Power to take evidence on oath.

  20. (1) The Commission may, at a public hearing, take evidence on oath or
affirmation and for that purpose a member of the Commission may administer an
oath or affirmation.
  (2) A member of the Commission may summon a person to appear before the
Commission at a public hearing to give evidence and to produce such documents
(if any) as are referred to in the summons.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 21.
Procedure at public hearings by Commission.

  21. At a public hearing by the Commission-

  (a)  the proceedings shall be conducted with as little formality and
technicality, and with as much expedition, as the requirements of this Act and
a proper consideration of the matters before the Commission permit;

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  (c)  the Commission may, upon such conditions as it thinks fit, permit a
person to intervene in the proceedings.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 22.
Hearing in private in certain circumstances.

  22. (1) Where, at a public hearing by the Commission, the Commission is
satisfied that it is desirable to do so by reason of the confidential nature
of any evidence or matter or for any other reason, the Commission may-

  (a)  direct that the hearing or a part of the hearing shall take place in
private and give directions as to the persons who may be present; or

  (b)  give directions prohibiting or restricting the publication of evidence
given before the Commission or of matters contained in documents lodged with
the Commission.
  (2) A reference in this Act to a public hearing by the Commission includes a
reference to a hearing by the Commission in respect of which a direction is in
force under paragraph (1) (a).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 23.
Evidence in form of written statement.

  23. The Commission may permit a person appearing as a witness before the
Commission to give evidence by tendering, and, if the Commission thinks fit,
verifying by oath or affirmation, a written statement.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 24.
Representation at public hearings by Commission.

  24. At a public hearing by the Commission-

  (a)  a person other than a body corporate may appear in person or may be
represented by an employee of the person approved by the Commission;

  (b)  a body corporate may be represented by an employee, or a director or
other officer, of the body corporate approved by the Commission;

  (c)  an unincorporated association of persons or a member of an
unincorporated association of persons may be represented by a member or
officer of the association approved by the Commission; and

  (d)  any person may be represented by a barrister or a solicitor of the
Supreme Court of a State or Territory or of the High Court.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 25.
Delegation by Commission.

  25. (1) The Commission may, by resolution, delegate to a member of the
Commission, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of
delegation, any of its powers under this Act, other than this power of
delegation and its powers to grant, revoke or vary an authorization.
  (2) A power so delegated may be exercised or performed by the delegate in
accordance with the instrument of delegation.
  (3) A delegation under this section is revocable at will and does not
prevent the exercise of a power by the Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 26.
Rights of public servant appointed as Chairman or full-time member.

  26. If a person appointed as Chairman or as a full-time member of the
Commission was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the
Australian Public Service or a person to whom the Officers' Rights Declaration
Act 1928-1973 applied-

  (a)  he retains his existing and accruing rights;

  (b)  for the purpose of determining those rights, his service as Chairman or
as a full-time member of the Commission shall be taken into account as if it
were service in the Australian Public Service; and

  (c)  the Officers' Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applies as if this Act
and this section had been specified in the Schedule to that Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 27.
Staff of Commission.

  27. (1) The staff necessary to assist the Commission shall be persons
appointed or employed under the Public Service Act 1922-1973.
  (2) The Chairman of the Commission has all the powers of, or exercisable by,
a Permanent Head under the Public Service Act 1922-1973 so far as those powers
relate to the branch of the Australian Public Service comprising the staff
referred to in sub-section (1) as if that branch were a separate Department of
the Australian Public Service.
  (3) For the purposes of sub-sections 25 (5) and (6) of the Public Service
Act 1922-1973, the Chairman shall be deemed to be a Permanent Head.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 28.
Functions of Commission in relation to dissemination of information, law
reform and research.

  28. (1) In addition to any other functions conferred on the Commission by
this Act, the Commission has the following functions:-


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  (a)  to make available to persons engaged in trade or commerce and other
interested persons general information for their guidance with respect to the
carrying out of the functions, or the exercise of the powers, of the
Commission under this Act;

  (b)  to examine critically, and report to the Attorney-General on, the laws
in force in Australia relating to the protection of consumers in respect of
matters referred to the Commission by the Attorney-General, being matters with
respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws;

  (c)  to conduct research in relation to matters affecting the interests of
consumers, being matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to
make laws;

  (d)  to make available to the public general information in relation to
matters affecting the interests of consumers, being matters with respect to
which the Parliament has power to make laws; and

  (e)  to make known for the guidance of consumers the rights and obligations
of persons under provisions of laws of Australia or of the Territories that
are designed to protect the interests of consumers.
  (2) Where a matter of a kind mentioned in paragraph (1) (b) is referred by
the Attorney-General to the Commission for examination and report-

  (a)  the Commission shall cause to be published in the Gazette and in such
newspapers and other journals as the Commission considers appropriate a
notice- 

      (i)  stating that the reference has been made and specifying the matter
to which the reference relates; and

     (ii)  inviting interested persons to furnish to the Commission their
views on that matter and specifying the time and manner within which those
views are to be furnished;

  (b)  the Commission shall not furnish its report to the Attorney-General
until a reasonable opportunity has been given to interested persons to furnish
to the Commission their views on the matter to which the reference relates;
and

  (c)  the Commission shall include in its report to the Attorney-General any
recommendations that it considers desirable with respect to the reform of the
law relating to the matter to which the reference relates, whether those
recommendations relate to the amendment of existing laws or the making of new
laws.
  (3) The Attorney-General shall cause a copy of each report furnished to him
by the Commission in relation to a matter referred to the Commission under
paragraph (1) (b) to be laid before each House of the Parliament as soon as
practicable after the report is received by him.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 29.
Commission to comply with directions of Attorney-General and requirements of
Parliament.

  29. (1) The Attorney-General may give directions to the Commission in
connexion with the performance of its functions or the exercise of its powers
under this Act other than its functions and powers related directly or
indirectly to Part VII, and the Commission shall comply with any directions so
given.
  (2) Any direction given to the Commission under sub-section (1) shall be in
writing and the Attorney-General shall cause a copy of the direction to be
published in the Gazette as soon as practicable after the direction is given.
  (3) If either House of the Parliament or a Committee of either House, or of
both Houses, of the Parliament requires the Commission to furnish to that
House or Committee any information concerning the performance of the functions
of the Commission under this Act, the Commission shall comply with the
requirement.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART III
                   PART III-THE TRADE PRACTICES TRIBUNAL


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 30.
Constitution of Tribunal.

  30. (1) The Trade Practices Tribunal in existence immediately before the
commencing date continues in existence as the Trade Practices Tribunal.
  (2) The Trade Practices Tribunal so continued in existence shall consist of
a President and such number of Deputy Presidents and other members as are
appointed in accordance with this section.
  (3) A member of the Tribunal shall be appointed by the Governor-General.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 31.
Qualifications of members of Tribunal.

  31. (1) A person shall not be appointed as a presidential member of the
Tribunal unless he is-


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  (a)  a Judge of a Federal Court, not being the High Court or a court of an
external Territory; or

  (b)  a person who has the status of a Judge of the Court.
  (2) A person shall not be appointed as a member of the Tribunal other than a
presidential member unless he appears to the Governor-General to be qualified
for appointment by virtue of his knowledge of, or experience in, industry,
commerce or public administration.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 32.
Terms and conditions of appointment.

  32. Subject to this Part, a member of the Tribunal holds office for such
period, not exceeding 7 years, as is specified in the instrument of his
appointment and on such terms and conditions as the Governor-General
determines, but is eligible for re-appointment.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 33.
Remuneration of members of Tribunal.

  33. (1) The President shall, if he is not the Chief Justice of the Court,
the Chief Judge of the Australian Industrial Court or the President of the
Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, be paid additional
remuneration at the rate of $2,200 per annum and an additional annual
allowance at the rate of $500 per annum.
  (2) A member of the Tribunal other than a presidential member shall be paid
such remuneration as is determined by the Remuneration Tribunal, but, until
that remuneration is so determined, he shall be paid such remuneration as is
prescribed.
  (3) Subject to the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973, a member of the Tribunal
shall be paid such allowances as are prescribed.
  (4) Any additional remuneration payable to the President under sub-section
(1) forms part of his salary as a Judge for the purposes of the Judges'
Pensions Act 1968-1973.
  (5) The Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 does not apply in relation to the
presidential members.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 34.
Acting appointments.

  34. (1) Where the President is, or is expected to be, absent from duty, or
there is a vacancy in the office of President, the Attorney-General may
appoint a Deputy President or an acting Deputy President to act as President
during the absence or until the filling of the vacancy.
  (2) Where a presidential member (including the President) of the Tribunal
is, or is expected to be, absent from duty, the Governor-General may appoint a
person qualified to be appointed as a presidential member to act as a Deputy
President during the absence from duty of the member.
  (3) Where a member of the Tribunal other than a presidential member is, or
is expected to be, absent from duty, the Governor-General may appoint a person
qualified to be appointed as a member of the Tribunal other than a
presidential member to act as such a member during the absence from duty of
the member.
  (4) Where a person has been appointed under sub-section (2) or (3), the
Governor-General may, by reason of pending proceedings or other special
circumstances, direct, before the absent member of the Tribunal resumes duty,
that the person so appointed shall continue to act under the appointment after
the resumption of duty by the absent member until the Governor-General
terminates the appointment, but a person shall not continue to act as a member
of the Tribunal by virtue of this sub-section for more than 12 months after
the resumption of duty by the absent member.
  (5) Where a person has been appointed under this section to act as a member
of the Tribunal during the absence from duty of a member of the Tribunal, and
that member ceases to hold office without having resumed duty, the period of
appointment of the person so appointed shall be deemed to continue until it is
terminated by the Governor-General, or until the expiration of 12 months from
the date on which the absent member ceases to hold office, whichever first
happens.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 35.
Suspension and removal of members of Tribunal.

  35. (1) The Governor-General may suspend a member of the Tribunal from
office on the ground of misbehaviour or physical or mental incapacity.
  (2) The Attorney-General shall cause a statement of the ground of the
suspension to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 7 sitting
days of the House after the suspension.
  (3) Where such a statement has been laid before a House of the Parliament,
that House may, within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which
the statement has been laid before it, by resolution, declare that the member
of the Tribunal should be restored to office and, if each House so passes a
resolution, the Governor-General shall terminate the suspension.
  (4) If, at the expiration of 15 sitting days of a House of the Parliament
after the day on which the statement has been laid before that House, that
House has not passed such a resolution, the Governor-General may remove the
member of the Tribunal from office.
  (5) If a member of the Tribunal becomes bankrupt, applies to take the
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with his creditors or makes an assignment of his remuneration for their
benefit, the Governor-General shall remove him from office.
  (6) A member of the Tribunal shall not be removed from office except as
provided by this section.
  (7) A presidential member of the Tribunal ceases to hold office if he no
longer holds office as a person referred to in paragraph 31 (1) (a) or (b).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 36.
Resignation.

  36. A member of the Tribunal may resign his office by writing signed by him
and delivered to the Governor-General.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 37.
Constitution of Tribunal for particular matters.

  37. The Tribunal shall, for the purpose of hearing and determining
proceedings, be constituted by a Division of the Tribunal consisting of a
presidential member of the Tribunal and two members of the Tribunal who are
not presidential members.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 38.
Validity of determinations.

  38. The validity of a determination of the Tribunal shall not be affected or
called in question by reason of any defect or irregularity in the constitution
of the Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 39.
Arrangement of business.

  39. The President may give directions as to the arrangement of the business
of the Tribunal and the constitution of Divisions of the Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 40.
Disclosure of financial interests of members of Tribunal.

  40. (1) When a member of the Tribunal, other than a presidential member, is
informed by the President that the President proposes that the member shall be
a member of a Division of the Tribunal in any proceedings, the member shall,
to the best of his knowledge, disclose to the President any direct or indirect
pecuniary interest that the member has in any business carried on in
Australia, or in any body corporate carrying on any such business, being an
interest that could be in conflict with his duties as a member of the Tribunal
in those proceedings.
  (2) Where an interest is so disclosed to the President and-

  (a)  in the case of an interest in a business-the person carrying on the
business; or

  (b)  in the case of an interest in a body corporate-that body corporate,
is concerned in the proceedings, the President shall cause the interest to be
disclosed to the public.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 41.
Presidential member to preside.

  41. The presidential member who is a member of a Division shall preside at
proceedings of that Division.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 42.
Decision of questions.

  42. (1) A question of law arising in a matter before a Division of the
Tribunal (including the question whether a particular question is one of law)
shall be determined in accordance with the opinion of the presidential member
presiding.
  (2) Subject to sub-section (1), a question arising in proceedings before a
Division of the Tribunal shall be determined in accordance with the opinion of
a majority of the members constituting the Division.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 43.
Member of Tribunal ceasing to be available.

  43. (1) This section applies where the hearing of any proceedings has been
commenced or completed by the Tribunal but, before the matter to which the
proceedings relate has been determined, one of the members constituting the
Tribunal for the purposes of the proceedings has ceased to be a member of the
Tribunal or has ceased to be available for the purposes of the proceedings.
  (2) Where the President is satisfied that this section applies in relation
to proceedings, the president may direct that a specified member of the
Tribunal shall take the place of the member referred to in sub-section (1) for
the purposes of the proceedings.
  (3) Where this section applies in relation to proceedings that were being
dealt with before the Tribunal, the President may, instead of giving a
direction under sub-section (2), direct that the hearing and determination, or
the determination, of the proceedings be completed by the Tribunal constituted
by the members other than the member referred to in sub-section (1).
  (4) Where the President has given a direction under sub-section (3), he may,
at any time before the determination of the proceedings, direct that a third
member be added to the Tribunal as constituted in accordance with sub-section
(3).
  (5) The Tribunal as constituted in accordance with any of the provisions of
this section for the purposes of any proceedings may have regard to any record
of the proceedings before the Tribunal as previously constituted.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 44.

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Staff of Tribunal.

  44. (1) There shall be a Registrar of the Tribunal and such Deputy
Registrars of the Tribunal as are appointed in accordance with this section.
  (2) The Registrar and the Deputy Registrars shall be appointed by the
Attorney-General and shall have such duties and functions as are provided by
this Act and the regulations and such other duties and functions as the
President directs.
  (3) The Registrar and the Deputy Registrars, and the staff necessary to
assist them, shall be persons appointed or employed under the Public Service
Act 1922-1973.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART IV
                     PART IV-RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 45.
Contracts, arrangements or understandings in restraint of trade or commerce.

  45. (1) A contract in restraint of trade or commerce that was made before
the commencement of this sub-section is unenforceable in so far as it confers
rights or benefits or imposes duties or obligations on a corporation.
  (2) A corporation shall not-

  (a)  make a contract or arrangement, or enter into an understanding, in
restraint of trade or commerce; or

  (b)  give effect to a contract, arrangement or understanding to the extent
that it is in restraint of trade or commerce, whether the contract or
arrangement was made or the understanding was entered into before or after the
commencement of this sub- section.
  (3) A contract, arrangement or understanding having the purpose or effect of
fixing, controlling or maintaining the price for, or any discount, allowance
or rebate in relation to, any goods or services supplied by the parties to the
contract, arrangement or understanding, or by any of them, in competition with
each other to persons not being parties to the contract, arrangement or
understanding is not in restraint of trade or commerce for the purposes of
this Act if the restraint has such a slight effect on competition between the
parties to the contract, arrangement or understanding, and on competition
between those parties or any of them and other persons, as to be
insignificant.
  (4) A contract, arrangement or understanding that is not of the kind
referred to in sub-section (3) is not in restraint of trade or commerce for
the purposes of this Act unless the restraint has or is likely to have a
significant effect on competition between the parties to the contract,
arrangement or understanding or on competition between those parties or any of
them and other persons.
  (5) This section does not apply to a contract, arrangement or understanding
in so far as-

  (a)  the contract, arrangement or understanding is of a kind referred to in
sub-section 47 (2) or constitutes the practice of exclusive dealing as
mentioned in sub-section 47 (3) or (4); or

  (b)  the contract, arrangement or understanding is prohibited by section 48
or would be prohibited by that section if this Act defined the acts
constituting the practice of resale price maintenance by reference to the
maximum price at which goods are to be sold.
  (6) This section does not apply to a contract in so far as the contract
provides for the acquisition of shares in the capital, or of assets, of a body
corporate, being an acquisition that does not constitute a contravention of
section 50 by reason that an authorization is in force in respect of the
acquisition or by reason of the operation of section 94.
  (7) This section does not apply to a contract, arrangement or understanding
the only parties to which are two or more bodies corporate that are related to
each other.
  (8) The making by a corporation of a contract in relation to which
sub-section 88 (1) applies is not a contravention of sub-section (2) if-

  (a)  the contract is subject to a condition that the contract will not come
into force unless and until-

      (i)  the corporation is granted an authorization to continue to be a
party to the contract; or

     (ii)  the Commission gives a notice in writing to the corporation under
sub-section 92 (2) in relation to the contract; and

  (b)  the corporation either applies for the grant of such an authorization,
or gives a notice to the Commission under sub-section 92 (1) in relation to
the contract, within 7 days after the contract is made,
but nothing in this sub-section prevents the giving effect by a corporation to
such a contract from constituting a contravention of sub-section (2).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 46.
Monopolization.

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  46. (1) A corporation that is in a position substantially to control a
market for goods or services shall not take advantage of the power in relation
to that market that it has by virtue of being in that position-

  (a)  to eliminate or substantially to damage a competitor in that market or
in another market;

  (b)  to prevent the entry of a person into that market or into another
market; or

  (c)  to deter or prevent a person from engaging in competitive behaviour in
that market or in another market.
  (2) For the purposes of this section, a corporation shall be deemed to be in
a position substantially to control a market for goods or services if that
corporation and any related corporation or related corporations are together
in a position substantially to control that market.
  (3) For the purposes of this section, a reference to a corporation being in
a position substantially to control a market for goods or services includes a
reference to a corporation which, by reason of its share of the market, or of
its share of the market combined with availability of technical knowledge, raw
materials or capital, has the power to determine the prices, or control the
production or distribution, of a substantial part of the goods or services in
that market.
  (4) This section does not prevent a corporation from-

  (a)  engaging, during the period of 4 months immediately following the date
fixed under sub-section 2 (3), in conduct that is of a kind referred to in
sub-section 45 (2) or 47 (1) but to which that sub-section does not apply by
reason of the fact that the conduct is engaged in before the expiration of
that period; or

  (b)  engaging, after the expiration of that period, in conduct that does not
constitute a contravention of any of the following sections, namely, sections
45, 47 and 50, by reason that an authorization is in force in respect of the
conduct or by reason of the operation of section 92, 93 or 94.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 47.
Exclusive dealing.

  47. (1) Subject to this section, a corporation shall not, in trade or
commerce, engage in the practice of exclusive dealing.
  (2) A corporation engages in the practice of exclusive dealing if the
corporation-

  (a)  supplies any goods or services;

  (b)  charges a price for the supply of any goods or services; or

  (c)  gives or allows a discount, allowance, rebate or credit in relation to
the supply of any goods or services,
on the condition, or subject to a contract, arrangement or understanding, that
the person to whom the corporation supplies the goods or services-

  (d)  will not, or will to a limited extent only, acquire goods or services
from a competitor of the corporation; or

  (e)  in the case where the corporation supplies goods-

      (i)  will not, or will to a limited extent only, supply any of the goods
to particular persons or to persons included in a particular class of persons;
or

     (ii)  will not, or will to a limited extent only, in particular places
supply any of the goods to other persons.
  (3) A corporation also engages in the practice of exclusive dealing if the
corporation requires, as a condition of the supply to a person of goods or
services of a kind that it could not lawfully supply but for the issue or
grant to the corporation of a licence, permit, authority or registration under
a law of Australia, that the person acquire all or a part of his requirements
of other goods or services directly or indirectly from the corporation.
  (4) A corporation also engages in the practice of exclusive dealing if the
corporation requires, as a condition of the supply to a person of goods or
services, that the person acquire all or a part of his requirements of other
goods or services directly or indirectly from a second person.
  (5) Sub-section (1) does not apply to the practice of exclusive dealing
constituted by a corporation engaging in conduct of a kind referred to in
sub-section (2) unless the engaging by the corporation in that conduct is
likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market
for goods or services.
  (6) This section does not apply with respect to any conduct engaged in by a
body corporate by way of restricting dealings by another body corporate if
those bodies corporate are related to each other.

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TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 48.
Resale price maintenance.

  48. A corporation or other person shall not engage in the practice of resale
price maintenance.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 49.
Price discrimination.

  49. (1) A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, discriminate between
purchasers of goods of like grade and quality in relation to-

  (a)  the prices charged for the goods;

  (b)  any discounts, allowances, rebates or credits given in relation to the
supply of the goods;

  (c)  the provision of services or facilities in respect of the goods; or

  (d)  the making of payments for services or facilities provided in respect
of the goods,
if the discrimination is of such magnitude or is of such a recurring or
systematic character that it is likely to have the effect of substantially
lessening competition in a market for goods, being a market in which the
corporation supplies, or those persons supply, goods.
  (2) Sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to a discrimination if-

  (a)  the discrimination makes only reasonable allowance for differences in
the cost or likely cost of manufacture, distribution, sale or delivery
resulting from the differing places to which, methods by which or quantities
in which the goods are supplied to the purchasers; or

  (b)  the discrimination is constituted by the doing of an act in good faith
to meet a price or benefit offered by a competitor of the supplier.
  (3) In any proceeding for a contravention of sub-section (1), the onus of
establishing that that sub-section does not apply in relation to a
discrimination by reason of sub-section (2) is on the party asserting that
sub-section (1) does not so apply.
  (4) A person shall not, in trade or commerce-

  (a)  knowingly induce or attempt to induce a corporation to discriminate in
a manner prohibited by sub-section (1); or

  (b)  enter into any transaction that to his knowledge would result in his
receiving the benefit of a discrimination that is prohibited by that
sub-section.
  (5) In any proceeding against a person for a contravention of sub-section
(4), it is a defence if that person establishes that he reasonably believed
that, by reason of sub-section (2), the discrimination concerned was not
prohibited by sub-section (1).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 50.
Mergers.

  50. (1) A corporation shall not acquire, directly or indirectly, any shares
in the capital, or any assets, of a body corporate where the acquisition is
likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market
for goods or services.
  (2) This section does not apply to an acquisition of assets of a body
corporate in the ordinary course of business.
  (3) Where-

  (a) a corporation has entered into a contract to acquire shares in the
capital, or assets, of a body corporate;

  (b)  the contract is subject to a condition that the contract will not come
into force unless and until-

      (i)  the corporation is granted an authorization to acquire the shares
or assets; or

     (ii)  sub-section 94 (3) applies in relation to the acquisition of the
shares or assets; and

  (c)  the corporation applied for the grant of such an authorization, or gave
a notice of the proposed acquisition to the Commission under sub-section 94
(1), before the expiration of 7 days after the contract was entered into or
the expiration of 14 days after the commencing date, whichever was the later,
an aquisition of the shares or assets shall not be regarded for the purposes
of this Act as having taken place in pursuance of the contract before-

  (d)  in a case where the corporation applied for the grant of an
authorization-the application for the authorization is disposed of;

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sub-section 94 (1)-

      (i)  the Commission gives notice to the corporation as mentioned in
paragraph 94 (3) (a); or

     (ii)  a period of 30 days elapses after the corporation gave the notice
to the Commission; or

  (f)  the contract ceases to be subject to the condition,
whichever first happens.
  (4) For the purposes of sub-section (3), an application for an authorization
shall be taken to be disposed of-

  (a)  in a case to which paragraph (b) of this sub-section does not apply-at
the expiration of 14 days after the period in which an application may be made
to the Tribunal for a review of the determination by the Commission of the
application for the authorization; or

  (b)  if an application is made to the Tribunal for a review of the
determination by the Commission of the application for the authorization-at
the expiration of 14 days after the date of the making by the Tribunal of a
determination on the review.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 51.
Exceptions.

  51. (1) In determining whether a contravention of a provision of this Part
has been committed, regard shall not be had-

  (a)  to any act or thing that is, or is of a kind, specifically authorized
or approved by, or by regulations under, an Act other than an Act relating to
patents, trade marks, designs or copyrights;

  (b)  in the case of acts or things done in a State-except as provided by the
regulations, to any act or thing that is, or is of a kind, specifically
authorized or approved by, or by regulations under, an Act passed by the
Parliament of that State; or

  (c)  in the case of acts or things done in a Territory-to any act or thing
that is, or is of a kind, specifically authorized or approved by, or by
regulations under, an Ordinance of that Territory.
  (2) In determining whether a contravention of a provision of this Part other
than section 48 has been committed, regard shall not be had-

  (a)  to any act done, or to any provision of a contract, in relation to the
remuneration, conditions of employment, hours of work or working conditions of
employees, or to any act done by employees or by an organisation of employees
not being an act done in the course of the carrying on of a business of the
employer of those employees or of a business of that organisation;

  (b)  to any provision of a contract, being a contract of service or a
contract for the provision of services, under which a person, not being a body
corporate, agrees to accept restrictions as to the work, whether as an
employee or otherwise, in which he may engage during, or after the termination
of, the contract;

  (c)  to any provision of a contract, or any arrangement or understanding,
obliging a person to comply with or apply standards of dimension, design,
quality or performance prepared or approved by the Standards Association of
Australia or by a prescribed association or body;

  (d)  to any provision of a contract, or any arrangement or understanding,
between partners none of whom is a body corporate in relation to the terms of
the partnership or the conduct of the partnership business or in relation to
competition between the partnership and a party to the contract, arrangement
or understanding while he is, or after he ceases to be, a partner;

  (e)  in the case of a contract for the sale of a business or of shares in
the capital of a body corporate carrying on a business-to any provision of the
contract that is solely for the protection of the purchaser in respect of the
goodwill of the business;

  (f)  to any acts done, otherwise than in the course of trade or commerce, in
concert by ultimate users or consumers of goods or services against the
suppliers of those goods or services; or

  (g)  to any act or thing that relates exclusively to the export of goods
from Australia or to the supply of services outside Australia, being an act or
thing done in pursuance of an agreement of which full and accurate particulars
were furnished to the Commission before the act or thing was done.
  (3) In determining whether a contravention of a provision of this Part other
than section 46 or 48 has been committed, regard shall not be had-

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  (a)  in the case of a contract for or in respect of-

      (i)  a licence granted or to be granted by the proprietor, licensee or
owner of a patent, a registered design or a copyright or by a person who has
applied for a patent or for the registration of a design; or

     (ii)  an assignment of a patent, a registered design or a copyright or of
the right to apply for a patent or for the registration of a design,

    to any condition of the licence or assignment relating exclusively to-

     (iii)  the invention to which the patent or application for a patent
relates or articles made by the use of that invention;

     (iv)  goods in respect of which the design is or is proposed to be
registered and to which it is applied; or

     (v)  the work or other subject matter in which the copyright subsists;

  (b)  in the case of a contract authorizing the use of a certification trade
mark-to any provision included in the contract in accordance with rules
applicable under Part XI of the Trade Marks Act 1955-1973; or

  (c)  in the case of a contract between the registered proprietor of a trade
mark other than a certification trade mark and a person authorized by the
contract to use the trade mark subject to registration as a registered user
under Part IX of the Trade Marks Act 1955-1973-to any provision of the
contract with respect to the kinds, qualities or standards of goods bearing
the mark that may be produced or supplied.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART V
                          PART  V-CONSUMER PROTECTION


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1
                          Division 1-Unfair Practices


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 52.
Misleading or deceptive conduct.

  52. (1) A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct
that is misleading or deceptive.
  (2) Nothing in the succeeding provisions of this Division shall be taken as
limiting by implication the generality of sub-section (1).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 53.
False representations.

  53. A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, in connexion with the
supply or possible supply of goods or services or in connexion with the
promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services-

  (a)  falsely represent that goods or services are of a particular standard,
quality or grade, or that goods are of a particular style or model;

  (b)  falsely represent that goods are new;

  (c)  represent that goods or services have sponsorship, approval,
performance characteristics, accessories, uses or benefits they do not have;

  (d)  represent that the corporation has a sponsorship, approval or
affiliation it does not have;

  (e)  make false or misleading statements concerning the existence of, or
amounts of, price reductions;

  (f)  make false or misleading statements concerning the need for any goods,
services, replacements or repairs; or

  (g)  make false or misleading statements concerning the existence or effect
of any warranty or guarantee.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 54.
Offering gifts and prizes.

  54. A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, in connexion with the
supply or possible supply of goods or services or in connexion with the
promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services, offer gifts,
prizes or other free items with the intention of not providing them as
offered. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 55.
Misleading conduct to which Industrial Property Convention applies.

  55. A person shall not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is
liable to mislead the public as to the nature, the manufacturing process, the
characteristics, the suitability for their purpose or the quantity of any
goods. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 56.
Bait advertising.

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  56. A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, advertise for supply at a
special price goods or services that the corporation does not intend to offer
for supply at that price for a period that is, and in quantities that are,
reasonable having regard to the nature of the market in which the corporation
carries on business and the nature of the advertisement.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 57.
Referral selling.

  57. A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, induce a consumer to
acquire goods or services by representing that the consumer will, after the
contract for the acquisition of the goods or services is made, receive a
rebate, commission or other benefit in return for giving the corporation the
names of prospective customers or otherwise assisting the corporation to
supply goods or services to other consumers, if receipt of the rebate,
commission or other benefit is contingent on an event occurring after that
contract is made.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 58.
Accepting payment without intending to supply as ordered.

  58. A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, accept payment or other
consideration for goods or services where at the time of the acceptance it
intends-

  (a)  not to supply the goods or services; or

  (b)  to supply goods or services materially different from the goods or
services in respect of which the payment or other consideration is accepted.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 59.
Misleading statements about home-operated businesses.

  59. A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, make a false or
misleading statement concerning the profitability or risk or any other
material aspect of any business activity that the corporation has represented
as one that can be, or can be to a considerable extent, carried on at a
person's place of residence. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 60.
Coercion at place of residence.

  60. A corporation shall not cause or permit a servant or agent of the
corporation to use, at a place of residence, physical force, undue harassment
or coercion in connexion with the supply or possible supply of goods or
services to a consumer or the payment for goods or services by a consumer.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 61.
Pyramid selling.

  61. (1) A corporation contravenes this section if-

  (a)  the corporation is the promoter of, or (if there are more than one) one
of the promoters of, or is a participant in, a trading scheme to which this
section applies; and

  (b)  a person who is a participant in that trading scheme, or has applied or
been invited to become a participant in that trading scheme, makes any payment
to or for the benefit of the corporation, being a payment that he is induced
to make by reason that the prospect is held out to him of receiving payments
or other benefits in respect of the introduction (whether by himself or by
another person) of other persons who become participants in that trading
scheme.
  (2) A corporation also contravenes this section if-

  (a)  the corporation is the promoter of, or (if there are more than one) one
of the promoters of, is a participant in, or is otherwise acting in accordance
with, a trading scheme to which this section applies; and

  (b)  the corporation, by holding out to any person the prospect of receiving
payments or other benefits in respect of the introduction (whether by himself
or by another person) of other persons who become participants in that trading
scheme, attempts to induce that person-

      (i)  if he is already a participant in that trading scheme, to make any
payment to or for the benefit of the promoter or any of the promoters or to or
for the benefit of a participant in that trading scheme; or

     (ii)  if he is not already a participant in that trading scheme, to
become such a participant and to make a payment of a kind mentioned in
sub-paragraph (i).
  (3) For the purposes of sub-section (1) or (2)-

  (a)  a prospect of a kind mentioned in that sub-section shall be taken to be
held out to a person whether it is held out so as to confer on him a legally
enforceable right or not;

  (b)  in determining whether an inducement or attempt to induce is made by
holding out a prospect of a kind mentioned in that sub-section, it is
sufficient if a prospect of that kind constitutes or would constitute a

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substantial part of the inducement; and

  (c)  any reference to the making of a payment to or for the benefit of a
person shall be construed as including the making of a payment partly to or
for the benefit of that person and partly to or for the benefit of one or more
other persons.
  (4) For the purposes of this section, a scheme is a trading scheme to which
this section applies if the scheme includes the following elements:-

  (a)  goods or services, or both, are to be provided by the person promoting
the scheme (in this section referred to as the "promoter") or, in the case of
a scheme promoted by two or more persons acting in concert (in this section
referred to as the "promoters"), are to be provided by one or more of those
persons; and

  (b)  the goods or services so provided are to be supplied to or for other
persons under transactions effected by persons (other than the promoter or any
of the promoters) who participate in the scheme (each of whom is in this
section referred to as a "participant").
  (5) For the purposes of sub-section (4)-

  (a)  a scheme shall be taken to include the element referred to in paragraph
(4) (b) whether the transactions referred to in that paragraph are to be
effected by participants in the capacity of servants or agents of the promoter
or of one of the promoters or in any other capacity;

  (b)  a scheme includes any arrangements made in connexion with the carrying
on of a business, whether those arrangements are made or recorded wholly or
partly in writing or not; and

  (c)  any reference to the provision of goods or services by a person shall
be construed as including a reference to the provision of goods or services
under arrangements to which that person is a party.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 62.
Product safety standards.

  62. (1) A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, supply goods that are
intended to be used, or are of a kind likely to be used, by a consumer, being
goods of a kind in respect of which a consumer product safety standard has
been prescribed, if those goods do not comply with that standard.
  (2) The regulations may, in respect of goods of a particular kind, prescribe
a consumer product safety standard consisting of such requirements as to-

  (a)  performance, composition, contents, design, construction, finish or
packaging of the goods; and

  (b)  the form and content of markings, warnings or instructions to accompany
the goods,
as are reasonably necessary to prevent or reduce risk of injury to persons
using the goods.
  (3) Where-

  (a)  the supplying of goods by a corporation constitutes a contravention of
this section by reason that the goods do not comply with a prescribed consumer
product safety standard;

  (b)  a person suffers loss or damage by reason of a defect in the goods or
by reason of his not having particular information in relation to the goods;
and

  (c)  the person would not have suffered the loss or damage if the goods had
complied with that standard,
the person shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have suffered the
loss or damage by the supplying of the goods.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 63.
Product information standards.

  63. (1) A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, supply goods that are
intended to be used, or are of a kind likely to be used, by a consumer, being
goods of a kind in respect of which a consumer product information standard
has been prescribed, unless the corporation has complied with that standard in
relation to those goods.
  (2) The regulations may, in respect of goods of a particular kind, prescribe
a consumer product information standard consisting of such requirements as
to-

  (a)  the disclosure of information relating to the performance, composition,
contents, design, construction, finish or packaging of the goods; and

  (b)  the form and manner in which that information is to be disclosed on or
with the goods,
as are reasonably necessary to give persons using the goods accurate

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information as to the quantity, quality, nature or value of the goods.
  (3) Where-

  (a)  the supplying of goods by a corporation constitutes a contravention of
this section by reason that the corporation has not complied with a prescribed
consumer product information standard in relation to the goods;

  (b)  a person suffers loss or damage by reason of his not having particular
information in relation to the goods; and

  (c)  the person would not have suffered the loss or damage if the
corporation had complied with that standard in relation to the goods,
the person shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have suffered the
loss or damage by the supplying of the goods.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 64.
Assertion of right to payment for unsolicited goods or for making entry in
directory.

  64. (1) A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, assert a right to
payment from a person for unsolicited goods unless the corporation has
reasonable cause to believe that there is a right to payment.
  (2) Sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to the assertion of a right
to payment from a person for unsolicited goods if the person ordinarily uses
like goods in the course of his profession, business, trade or occupation.
  (3) A corporation shall not assert a right to payment from any person of a
charge for the making in a directory of an entry relating to the person or to
his profession, business, trade or occupation unless the corporation knows or
has reasonable cause to believe that the person has authorized the making of
the entry.
  (4) A person is not liable to make any payment to a corporation, and is
entitled to recover by action in a court of competent jurisdiction against a
corporation any payment made by the person to the corporation, in full or part
satisfaction of a charge for the making of an entry in a directory unless the
person has authorized the making of the entry.
  (5) For the purposes of this section, a corporation shall be taken to assert
a right to a payment from a person for unsolicited goods or of a charge for
the making of an entry in a directory if the corporation-

  (a)  makes a demand for the payment or asserts a present or prospective
right to the payment;

  (b)  threatens to bring any legal proceedings with a view to obtaining the
payment;

  (c)  places or causes to be placed the name of the person on a list of
defaulters or debtors, or threatens to do so, with a view to obtaining the
payment;

  (d)  invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure, or
threatens to do so, with a view to obtaining the payment; or

  (e)  sends any invoice or other document stating the amount of the payment
or setting out the price of the goods or the charge for the making of the
entry and not stating as prominently (or more prominently) that no claim is
made to the payment, or to payment of the price or charge, as the case may
be.
  (6)  A person shall not be taken for the purposes of this section to have
authorized the making of an entry in a directory unless-

  (a)  a document authorizing the making of the entry has been signed by the
person or by another person authorized by him;

  (b)  a copy of the document has been given to the person before the right to
payment of a charge for the making of the entry is asserted; and

  (c)  the document specifies-

      (i)  the name of the directory;

     (ii)  the name and address of the person publishing the directory;

     (iii)  particulars of the entry; and

     (iv)  the amount of the charge for the making of the entry or the basis
on which the charge is, or is to be, calculated.
  (7) For the purposes of this section, an invoice or other document
purporting to have been sent by or on behalf of a corporation shall be deemed
to have been sent by that corporation unless the contrary is established.
  (8) Sub-sections (3) and (4) do not apply to or in relation to a payment if
the payment relates to-


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  (a)  a contract that was made before the commencing date; or

  (b)  a contract that is made on or after that date by reason of the
acceptance after that date of an offer that was made before that date.
  (9) In a proceeding against a corporation in respect of a contravention of
this section-

  (a)  in the case of a contravention constituted by asserting a right to
payment from a person for unsolicited goods-the burden lies on the corporation
of proving that the corporation had reasonable cause to believe that there was
a right to payment; or

  (b)  in the case of a contravention constituted by asserting a right to
payment from a person of a charge for the making of an entry in a
directory-the burden lies on the corporation of proving that the corporation
knew or had reasonable cause to believe that the person had authorized the
making of the entry.
  (10) In this section-

  "directory" includes any publication of a similar nature to a directory but
does not include a newspaper published in good faith as a newspaper at regular
intervals or a publication published, or to be published, by or under the
authority of the Postmaster-General;

  "making", in relation to an entry in a directory, means including, or
arranging for the inclusion of, the entry.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 65.
Liability of recipient of unsolicited goods.

  65. (1) A person to whom unsolicited goods are supplied by a corporation, in
trade or commerce, is not liable to make any payment for the goods and is not
liable for the loss of or damage to the goods other than loss or damage
resulting from the doing by him of a wilful and unlawful act in relation to
the goods during the period specified in sub-section (4).
  (2) Subject to sub-section (3), where, on or after the commencing date, a
corporation sends, in trade or commerce, unsolicited goods to a person-

  (a)  neither the corporation nor any person claiming under the corporation
is entitled after the expiration of the period specified in sub-section (4) to
take action for the recovery of the goods from the person to whom the goods
were sent; and

  (b)  upon the expiration of that period the goods become, by force of this
section, the property of the person to whom the goods were sent freed and
discharged from all liens and charges of any description.
  (3) Sub-section (2) does not apply to or in relation to unsolicited goods
sent to a person if-

  (a)  the person has at any time during the period specified in sub-section
(4) unreasonably refused to permit the sender or the owner of the goods to
take possession of the goods;

  (b)  the sender or the owner of the goods has within that period taken
possession of the goods; or

  (c)  the goods were received by the person in circumstances in which the
person knew, or might reasonably be expected to have known, that the goods
were not intended for him.
  (4) The period referred to in the foregoing sub-sections is-

  (a)  if the person who receives the unsolicited goods gives notice with
respect to the goods to the sender in accordance with sub-section (5)-

      (i)  the period of 1 month next following the day on which the notice is
given; or

     (ii)  the period of 3 months next following the day on which the person
received the goods,

    whichever first expires; and

  (b)  in any other case-the period of 3 months next following the day on
which the person received the goods.
  (5) A notice under sub-section (4) shall be in writing and shall-

  (a)  state the name and address of the person who received the goods;

  (b)  state the address at which possession may be taken of the goods if it
is an address other than that of the person; and

  (c)  contain a statement to the effect that the goods are unsolicited

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goods.
  (6) This section does not apply in relation to a person who receives
unsolicited goods if the person ordinarily uses like goods in the course of
his profession, business, trade or occupation.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2
         Division 2-Conditions and Warranties in Consumer Transactions


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 66.
Interpretation.

  66. (1) In this Division-

  (a)  a reference to the quality of goods includes a reference to the state
or condition of the goods;

  (b)  a reference to a contract does not include a reference to a contract
made before the commencing date;

  (c)  a reference to antecedent negotiations in relation to a contract for
the supply by a corporation of goods to a consumer is a reference to any
negotiations or arrangements conducted or made with the consumer by another
person in the course of a business carried on by the other person whereby the
consumer was induced to make the contract or which otherwise promoted the
transaction to which the contract relates; and

  (d)  a reference to the person by whom any antecedent negotiations were
conducted is a reference to the person by whom the negotiations or
arrangements concerned were conducted or made.
  (2) Goods of any kind are of merchantable quality within the meaning of this
Division if they are as fit for the purpose or purposes for which goods of
that kind are commonly bought as it is reasonable to expect having regard to
any description applied to them, the price (if relevant) and all the other
relevant circumstances.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 67.
Conflict of laws.

  67. Where-

  (a)  the proper law of a contract for the supply by a corporation of goods
or services to a consumer would, but for a term that it should be the law of
some other country or a term to the like effect, be the law of any part of
Australia; or

  (b)  a contract for the supply by a corporation of goods or services to a
consumer contains a term that purports to substitute, or has the effect of
substituting, provisions of the law of some other country or of a State or
Territory for all or any of the provisions of this Division,
this Division applies to the contract notwithstanding that term.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 68.
Application of Division to contracts not to be excluded or modified.

  68. (1) Any term of a contract for the supply by a corporation of goods or
services to a consumer (including a term that is not set out in the contract
but is incorporated in the contract by another term of the contract) that
purports to exclude, restrict or modify or has the effect of excluding,
restricting or modifying-

  (a)  the application in relation to that contract of all or any of the
provisions of this Division;

  (b)  the exercise of a right conferred by such a provision; or

  (c)  any liability of the corporation for breach of a condition or warranty
implied by such a provision,
is void.
  (2)  A term of a contract shall not be taken to exclude, restrict or modify
the application of a provision of this Division unless the term does so
expressly or is inconsistent with that provision.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 69.
Implied undertakings as to title, encumbrances and quiet possession.

  69. (1) In every contract for the supply of goods by a corporation to a
consumer, other than a contract to which sub-section (3) applies, there is-

  (a)  an implied condition that, in the case of a supply by way of sale, the
supplier has a right to sell the goods, and, in the case of an agreement to
sell or a hire-purchase agreement, the supplier will have a right to sell the
goods at the time when the property is to pass;

  (b)  an implied warranty that the consumer will enjoy quiet possession of
the goods except so far as it may lawfully be disturbed by the supplier or by
another person who is entitled to the benefit of any charge or encumbrance
disclosed or known to the consumer before the contract is made; and

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property is to pass or may pass to the consumer-an implied warranty that the
goods are free, and will remain free until the time when the property passes,
from any charge or encumbrance not disclosed or known to the consumer before
the contract is made.
  (2) A corporation is not, in relation to a contract for the supply of goods,
in breach of the implied warranty referred to in paragraph (1) (c) by reason
only of the existence of a floating charge over assets of the corporation
unless and until the charge becomes fixed and enforceable by the person to
whom the charge is given.
  (3) In a contract for the supply of goods by a corporation to a consumer in
the case of which there appears from the contract or is to be inferred from
the circumstances of the contract an intention that the supplier should
transfer only such title as he or a third person may have, there is-

  (a)  an implied warranty that all charges or encumbrances known to the
supplier and not known to the consumer have been disclosed to the consumer
before the contract is made; and

  (b)  an implied warranty that-

      (i)  the supplier;

     (ii)  in a case where the parties to the contract intend that the
supplier should transfer only such title as a third person may have-that
person; and

     (iii)  anyone claiming through or under the supplier or that third person
otherwise than under a charge or encumbrance disclosed or known to the
consumer before the contract is made,

    will not disturb the consumer's quiet possession of the goods.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 70.
Supply by description.

  70. (1) Where there is a contract for the supply (otherwise than by way of
sale by auction or sale by competitive tender) by a corporation in the course
of a business of goods to a consumer by description, there is an implied
condition that the goods will correspond with the description, and, if the
supply is by reference to a sample as well as by description, it is not
sufficient that the bulk of the goods corresponds with the sample if the goods
do not also correspond with the description.
  (2) A supply of goods is not prevented from being a supply by description
for the purposes of sub-section (1) by reason only that, being exposed for
sale or hire, they are selected by the consumer.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 71.
Implied undertakings as to quality or fitness.

  71. (1) Where a corporation supplies (otherwise than by way of sale by
auction or sale by competitive tender) goods to a consumer in the course of a
business, there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the
contract for the supply of the goods are of merchantable quality, except that
there is no such condition by virtue only of this section-

  (a)  as regards defects specifically drawn to the consumer's attention
before the contract is made; or

  (b)  if the consumer examines the goods before the contract is made, as
regards defects which that examination ought to reveal.
  (2) Where a corporation supplies (otherwise than by way of sale by auction
or sale by competitive tender) goods to a consumer in the course of a business
and the consumer, expressly or by implication, makes known to the corporation
or to the person by whom any antecedent negotiations are conducted any
particular purpose for which the goods are being acquired, there is an implied
condition that the goods supplied under the contract for the supply of the
goods are reasonably fit for that purpose, whether or not that is a purpose
for which such goods are commonly supplied, except where the circumstances
show that the consumer does not rely, or that it is unreasonable for him to
rely, on the skill or judgment of the corporation or of that person.

   (3) Sub-sections (1) and (2) apply to a contract for the supply of goods
made by a person who in the course of a business is acting as agent for a
corporation as they apply to a contract for the supply of goods made by a
corporation in the course of a business, except where that corporation is not
supplying in the course of a business and either the consumer knows that fact
or reasonable steps are taken to bring it to the notice of the consumer before
the contract is made. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 72.
Supply by sample.

  72. Where in a contract for the supply (otherwise than by way of sale by
auction or sale by competitive tender) by a corporation in the course of a
business of goods to a consumer there is a term in the contract, expressed or
implied, to the effect that the goods are supplied by reference to a sample-

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  (a)  there is an implied condition that the bulk will correspond with the
sample in quality;

  (b)  there is an implied condition that the consumer will have a reasonable
opportunity of comparing the bulk with the sample; and

  (c)  there is an implied condition that the goods will be free from any
defect, rendering them unmerchantable, that would not be apparent on
reasonable examination of the sample.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 73.
Liability for loss or damage from breach of certain contracts.

  73. Where-

  (a)  a corporation (in this section referred to as the "owner") enters into
a contract for the supply by way of lease, hire or hire-purchase of goods to a
consumer;

  (b)  antecedent negotiations in relation to the contract were conducted with
the consumer by or on behalf of another corporation that is not related to the
owner;

  (c)  the other corporation supplied the goods, or caused the goods to be
supplied, to the owner;

  (d)  the owner did not take physical possession of the goods before they
were delivered to the consumer; and

  (e)  the consumer suffers loss or damage as a result of a breach of a
condition that is implied in the contract by virtue of section 70, 71 or 72,
the owner is not under any liability to the consumer by reason of the breach
of that condition but the consumer may recover the amount of the loss or
damage by action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the other
corporation.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 74.
Warranties in relation to the supply of services.

  74. (1) In every contract for the supply (otherwise than by way of
competitive tender) by a corporation in the course of a business of services
to a consumer there is an implied warranty that the services will be rendered
with due care and skill and that any materials supplied in connexion with
those services will be reasonably fit for the purpose for which they are
supplied.
  (2) Where a corporation supplies (otherwise than by way of competitive
tender) services to a consumer in the course of a business and the consumer,
expressly or by implication, makes known to the corporation any particular
purpose for which the services are required or the result that he desires the
services to achieve, there is an implied warranty that the services supplied
under the contract for the supply of the services and any materials supplied
in connexion with those services will be reasonably fit for that purpose or
are of such a nature and quality that they might reasonably be expected to
achieve that result, except where the circumstances show that the consumer
does not rely, or that it is unreasonable for him to rely, on the
corporation's skill or judgment. 
  (3) In this section, "services" means services by way of-

  (a)  the construction, maintenance, repair, treatment, processing, cleaning
or alteration of goods or of fixtures on land;

  (b)  the alteration of the physical state of land;

  (c)  the distribution of goods; or

  (d)  the transportation of goods.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 3
                            Division 3-Miscellaneous


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 75.
Saving of other laws and remedies.

  75. (1) Except as provided by sub-section (2), this Part is not intended to
exclude or limit the concurrent operation of any law of a State or Territory.
  (2) Where an act or omission of a person is both an offence against section
79 and an offence under the law of a State or Territory and that person is
convicted of either of those offences, he is not liable to be convicted of the
other of those offences.
  (3) Except as expressly provided by this Part, nothing in this Part shall be
taken to limit, restrict or otherwise affect any right or remedy a person
would have had if this Part had not been enacted.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART VI
                      PART VI-ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 76.
Pecuniary penalties.

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  76. If the Court is satisfied that a person-

  (a)  has contravened a provision of Part IV;

  (b)  has attempted to contravene such a provision;

  (c)  has aided, abetted, counselled or procured a person to contravene such
a provision;

  (d)  has induced, or attempted to induce, a person, whether by threats or
promises or otherwise, to contravene such a provision;

  (e)  has been in any way, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in, or
party to, the contravention by a person of such a provision; or

  (f)  has conspired with others to contravene such a provision,
the Court may order the person to pay to Australia such pecuniary penalty (not
exceeding $50,000 in the case of a person not being a body corporate, or
$250,000 in the case of a body corporate, in respect of each act or omission
by the person to which this section applies) as the Court determines to be
appropriate having regard to all relevant matters including the nature and
extent of the act or omission and of any loss or damage suffered as a result
of the act or omission, the circumstances in which the act or omission took
place and whether the person has previously been found by the Superior Court
of Australia or the Australian Industrial Court in proceedings under this Part
to have engaged in any similar conduct.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 77.
Civil action for recovery of pecuniary penalties.

  77. (1) The Attorney-General or the Commission may institute a proceeding in
the Court for the recovery on behalf of Australia of a pecuniary penalty
referred to in section 76.
  (2) A proceeding under sub-section (1) may be commenced within 6 years after
the contravention.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 78.
Criminal proceedings not to be brought for contraventions of Part IV.

  78. Criminal proceedings do not lie against a person by reason only that the
person-

  (a)  has contravened a provision of Part IV;

  (b)  has attempted to contravene such a provision;

  (c)  has aided, abetted, counselled or procured a person to contravene such
a provision;

  (d)  has induced, or attempted to induce, a person, whether by threats or
promises or otherwise, to contravene such a provision;

  (e)  has been in any way, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in, or
party to, the contravention by a person of such a provision; or

  (f)  has conspired with others to contravene such a provision.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 79.
Offences against Part V.

  79. A person who contravenes a provision of Part V other than section 52 is
guilty of an offence punishable on conviction-

  (a)  in the case of a person not being a body corporate-by a fine not
exceeding $10,000 or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months; or

  (b)  in the case of a person being a body corporate-by a fine not exceeding
$50,000.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 80.
Injunctions.

  80. (1) The Court may, on the application of-

  (a)  the Attorney-General;

  (b)  the Commission; or

  (c)  any other person,
grant an injunction restraining a person from engaging in conduct that
constitutes or would constitute-

  (d)  a contravention of a provision of Part IV or V;

  (e)  attempting to contravene such a provision;

  (f)  aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a person to contravene such
a provision;

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  (g)  inducing, or attempting to induce, a person, whether by threats,
promises or otherwise, to contravene such a provision;

  (h)  being in any way, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in, or
party to, the contravention by a person of such a provision; or

  (j)  conspiring with others to contravene such a provision.
  (2) Where in the opinion of the Court it is desirable to do so, the Court
may grant an interim injunction pending determination of an application under
sub-section (1).
  (3) The Court may rescind or vary an injunction granted under sub-section
(1) or (2).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 81.
Divestiture.

  81. If the Court finds that a corporation has contravened section 50, the
Court, on the application of-

  (a)  the Attorney-General;

  (b)  the Commission; or

  (c)  if the proceeding in which the Court finds that the corporation has
contravened that section was instituted by a person other than the
Attorney-General or the Commission-that person,
may, by order, give directions for the purpose of securing the disposal by the
corporation of all or any of the shares or assets acquired in contravention of
that section.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 82.
Actions for damages.

  82. (1) A person who suffers loss or damage by an act of another person that
was done in contravention of a provision of Part IV or V may recover the
amount of the loss or damage by action against that other person.
  (2) An action under sub-section (1) may be commenced at any time within 3
years after the date on which the cause of action accrued.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 83.
Finding in proceedings to be evidence.

  83. In proceedings against a person under section 82, a finding of any fact
by the Court made in proceedings under section 77, 80 or 81, or for an offence
against section 79, in which that person has been found to have contravened a
provision of Part IV or V is prima facie evidence of that fact and the finding
may be proved by production of a document under the seal of the court from
which the finding appears.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 84.
Conduct by servants or agents of body corporate.

  84. (1) Where, in a proceeding under this Part in respect of any conduct
engaged in by a body corporate, being conduct in relation to which a provision
of Part V applies, it is necessary to establish the intention of the body
corporate, it is sufficient to show that a servant or agent of the body
corporate by whom the conduct was engaged in had that intention.
  (2) Any conduct engaged in on behalf of a body corporate by a director,
agent or servant of the body corporate or by any other person at the direction
or with the consent or agreement (whether express or implied) of a director,
agent or servant of the body corporate shall be deemed, for the purposes of
this Act, to have been engaged in also by the body corporate.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 85.
Defences.

  85. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), in a prosecution under this Part in
relation to a contravention of a provision of Part V, it is a defence if the
defendant establishes-

  (a)  that the contravention in respect of which the proceeding was
instituted was due to a mistake, to reliance on information supplied by
another person, to the act or default of another person, to an accident or to
some other cause beyond his control; and

  (b)  that he took reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to
avoid the contravention.
  (2) If a defence provided by sub-section (1) involves an allegation that a
contravention was due to reliance on information supplied by another person or
to the act or default of another person, the defendant is not, without leave
of the Court, entitled to rely on that defence unless he has, not later than 7
days before the day on which the hearing of the proceeding commences, served
on the person by whom the proceeding was instituted a notice in writing giving
such information that would identify or assist in the identification of the
other person as was then in his possession.
  (3) In a proceeding under this Part in relation to a contravention of a
provision of Part V committed by the publication of an advertisement, it is a
defence if the defendant establishes that he is a person whose business it is
to publish or arrange for the publication of advertisements and that he

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received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business
and did not know and had no reason to suspect that its publication would
amount to a contravention of a provision of that Part.
  (4) In a proceeding under this Part in relation to a contravention of Part V
committed by the supplying of goods that did not comply with a consumer
product safety standard or in relation to which the supplier did not comply
with a consumer product information standard, it is a defence if the defendant
establishes-

  (a)  that the goods were acquired by him for the purpose of re-supply and
were so acquired from a person who carried on in Australia a business of
supplying such goods otherwise than as the agent of a person outside
Australia; and

  (b) that he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have
ascertained, that the goods did not comply with that standard or that he had
not complied with that standard in relation to the goods, as the case may be,
or he relied in good faith on a representation by the person from whom he
acquired the goods that a consumer product safety standard or a consumer
product information standard, as the case may be, had not been prescribed in
respect of the goods.
  (5) A person is not, without leave of the Court, entitled to rely on the
defence provided by sub-section (4) unless he has, not later than 7 days
before the day on which the hearing of the proceeding commences, served on the
person by whom the proceeding was instituted a notice in writing identifying
the person from whom he acquired the goods.
  (6) Where, in any proceedings against a person other than a body corporate
under this Part, it appears to the Court that the person has or may have done
an act in contravention of a provision of Part IV or an act referred to in
paragraph 76 (b), (c), (d) or (e) but that the person acted honestly and
reasonably and, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, ought
fairly to be excused, the Court may relieve the person either wholly or partly
from liability to any penalty or damages on such terms as the Court thinks
fit.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 86.
Jurisdiction of Court.

  86. Jurisdiction is conferred on the Court to hear and determine actions,
prosecutions and other proceedings under this Part and that jurisdiction is
exclusive of the jurisdiction of any other court, other than the jurisdiction
of the High Court under section 75 of the Constitution.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 87.
Ancillary orders.

  87. (1) Where in a proceeding instituted under or for an offence against
this Part the Court finds that there has been a contravention of a provision
of Part IV or V, the Court may, in addition to imposing a penalty under
section 77 or 79, granting an injunction under section 80 or making an order
under section 82 in an action for the recovery of the amount of any loss or
damage, make such other orders as it thinks fit to redress injury to persons
caused by any conduct to which the proceeding relates or any like conduct
engaged in by the defendant. 
  (2) The orders that may be made under sub-section (1) include, but are not
limited to-

  (a)  an order declaring the whole or any part of a contract or of a
collateral arrangement relating to a contract to be void and, if the Court
thinks fit, to have been void ab initio or at all times on and after such date
before the date on which the order is made as is specified in the order;

  (b)  an order varying a contract or such an arrangement in such manner as is
specified in the order and, if the Court thinks fit, declaring the contract or
arrangement to have had effect as so varied on and after such date before the
date on which the order is made as is so specified;

  (c)  an order directing the refund of money or the return of property; and

  (d)  an order directing the payment to a person who has suffered loss or
damage of the amount of the loss or damage.
  (3) Where-

  (a)  a contract made before the expiration of the period referred to in
sub-section 2 (4) is unenforceable by reason of section 45 in so far as it
confers rights or benefits or imposes duties or obligations on a corporation;
or 

  (b)  the engaging in conduct by a corporation in pursuance of or in
accordance with a contract made before the expiration of that period would
constitute a contravention of section 47,
the Court may, on the application of a party to the contract, make an order-

  (c)  varying the contract, or a collateral arrangement relating to the

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contract, in such manner as the Court considers just and equitable; or

  (d)  directing another party to the contract to do any act in relation to
the first-mentioned party that the Court considers just and equitable.
  (4) The orders that may be made under sub-section (3) include an order
directing the termination of a lease or the increase or reduction of any rent
or premium payable under a lease.
  (5) The powers conferred on the Court under this section in relation to a
contract do not affect any powers that any other court may have in relation to
the contract in proceedings instituted in that other court in respect of the
contract.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART VII
PART VII-AUTHORIZATIONS AND CLEARANCES IN RESPECT OF RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1
                           Division 1-Authorizations


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 88.
Power of Commission to grant authorizations.

  88. (1) Subject to this Part, the Commission may, upon application by or on
behalf of a corporation, grant an authorization to the corporation to make a
contract or arrangement, or enter into an understanding, that would be or
might be in restraint of trade or commerce or to continue to be a party to a
contract, arrangement or understanding that is or may be in restraint of trade
or commerce, and, while such an authorization remains in force-

  (a)  in the case of an authorization to make a contract or arrangement or to
enter into an understanding-sub-section 45 (2) does not prevent the
corporation from making the contract or arrangement or entering into the
understanding in accordance with the authorization and giving effect to the
contract or arrangement so made or the understanding so entered into;

  (b)  in the case of an authorization to continue to be a party to a
contract- 

      (i)  the contract is not unenforceable by reason of sub- section 45 (1);
and

     (ii)  sub-section 45 (2) does not prevent the corporation from giving
effect to the contract; or

  (c)  in the case of an authorization to continue to be a party to an
arrangement or understanding-sub-section 45 (2) does not prevent the
corporation from giving effect to the arrangement or understanding in
accordance with the authorization.
  (2) Sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to a contract, arrangement or
understanding fixing or controlling, or providing for the fixing or
controlling of, the price for, or any discount, allowance or rebate in
relation to, any goods supplied by the parties to the contract, arrangement or
understanding, or by any of them, in competition with each other, to persons
not being parties to the contract, arrangement or understanding, other than a
contract, arrangement or understanding between persons in connexion with the
supply of goods by those persons on a joint basis or the supply by those
persons of goods that have been produced, manufactured, mined or acquired by
them on a joint basis.
  (3) An authorization under sub-section (1) to make a contract or arrangement
or enter into an understanding, or to continue to be a party to a contract,
arrangement or understanding, may be expressed so as to apply to a corporation
that becomes a party to the contract, arrangement or understanding after the
authorization is granted.
  (4) The Commission does not have power to grant an authorization under
sub-section (1) to a corporation to make a contract or arrangement, or to
enter into an understanding, if the contract or arrangement has already been
made or the understanding has already been entered into.
  (5) The Commission does not have power to grant an authorization under
sub-section (1) to a corporation to continue to be a party to a contract,
arrangement or understanding unless-

  (a)  in the case of a contract-the requirements of paragraphs 45 (8) (a) and
(b) have been complied with; or

  (b)  the contract or arrangement was made, or the understanding was entered
into, before the expiration of the period referred to in sub-section 2 (4)
and- 

      (i)  the authorization is granted before the expiration of that period;
or 

     (ii)  the authorization is granted upon the expiration or revocation of
another authorization granted to the corporation under sub-section (1) in
relation to the contract, arrangement or understanding.
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corporation, grant an authorization to the corporation to engage in conduct
that would or may constitute engaging in the practice of exclusive dealing
and, while such an authorization remains in force, section 47 does not prevent
the corporation from engaging in that conduct in accordance with the
authorization. 
  (7) Subject to this Part, the Commission may, upon application by a
corporation, grant an authorization to the corporation to acquire shares in
the capital, or to acquire assets, of a body corporate and, while such an
authorization remains in force, section 50 does not prevent the corporation
from acquiring shares in the capital, or from acquiring assets, of the body
corporate in accordance with the authorization.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 89.
Procedure for applications.

  89. (1) An application for an authorization shall be made in writing as
prescribed.
  (2) The Commission shall cause to be made public in such manner as it thinks
fit notice of the receipt by the Commission of an application for an
authorization.
  (3) The Commission shall keep a register of applications for authorizations
received by it.
  (4) Subject to sub-sections (5) and (6), the register kept under sub-section
(3) shall include-

  (a)  any document furnished to the Commission in relation to an application
for an authorization, including any notice by the Attorney-General in relation
to the application under paragraph 90 (9) (b);

  (b)  particulars of any oral submission made to the Commission in relation
to such an application; and

  (c)  the determination of the Commission on such an application and the
statement of the reasons given by the Commission for that determination.
  (5) Where the Commission is satisfied that it is desirable to do so by
reason of the confidential nature of any document or for any other reason, the
Commission may direct that a document referred to in paragraph (4) (a) or (b)
shall not be included in the register kept under sub-section (3).
  (6) A document shall not be included in the register kept under sub-section
(3) if a direction in relation to that document is in force under paragraph 22
(1) (b).
  (7) Where a corporation makes an application for an authorization under
sub-section 88 (7) in relation to the acquisition of shares in the capital of
a body corporate that is a company to which the Companies (Foreign Take-overs)
Act 1972-1973 applies, the corporation shall furnish a copy of the application
to the Minister administering that Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 90.
Determination of applications for authorizations.

  90. (1) The Commission shall, in respect of an application for an
authorization-

  (a)  make a determination in writing granting such authorization as it
considers appropriate; or

  (b)  make a determination in writing dismissing the application.
  (2) The Commission shall take into account any submissions in relation to
the application made to it by the applicant or any other person and may, where
it considers it appropriate to do so, hold a public hearing in relation to the
application.
  (3) Where the Commission decides to hold a public hearing in relation to an
application, the Commission shall cause notice of the time and place at which
the hearing is to commence to be made public in such manner as it thinks fit.
  (4) The Commission shall state in writing its reasons for a determination
made by it.
  (5) Subject to sub-sections (9) and (11), the Commission shall not make a
determination granting an authorization unless it is satisfied that the
contract, arrangement, understanding or conduct to which the application
relates results, or is likely to result, in a substantial benefit to the
public, being a benefit that would not otherwise be available, and that, in
all the circumstances, that result, or that likely result, as the case may be,
justifies the granting of the authorization.
  (6) Subject to sub-sections (7) and (8), the Commission shall determine an
application for an authorization under sub-section 88 (7) within 4 months from
the prescribed date.
  (7) If the applicant for an authorization under sub-section 88 (7) informs
the Commission in writing before the expiration of the period referred to in
sub-section (6) that the applicant agrees to the Commission taking a specified
longer period for the determination of the application, that longer period
shall be deemed to be substituted in sub-section (6) for the period referred
to in that sub-section.
  (8) For the purposes of an application of sub-section (7), a reference in
that sub-section to the period referred to in sub-section (6) shall, if

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another period is deemed to have been substituted in sub-section (6) for that
period by any other application or applications of sub-section (7), be
construed as a reference to that other period.
  (9) Subject to sub-section (10), where-

  (a)  an application is made for an authorization under sub-section 88 (7) in
relation to the acquisition of shares in the capital, or assets, of a body
corporate; and

  (b)  the Attorney-General by notice in writing to the Commission informs the
Commission that the Australian Government considers that there are special
considerations relating to the acquisition that make it desirable in the
interests of national economic policy that an authorization be granted in
respect of the acquisition,
the Commission shall grant the authorization.
  (10) The Commission shall not begin to consider an application for an
authorization under sub-section 88 (7) in relation to the acquisition of
shares in the capital of a body corporate that is a company to which the
Companies (Foreign Take-overs) Act 1972-1973 applies unless the applicant has
furnished to the Commission a certificate given in accordance with sub-section
17 (1) of that Act in respect of the shares.
  (11) If the applicant for an authorization referred to in sub-section (10)
furnishes to the Commission under that sub-section a certificate given in
accordance with paragraph 17 (1) (b) of the Companies (Foreign Take-overs) Act
1972-1973 in respect of the shares to which the application relates, the
Commission shall grant the authorization.
  (12) Where the applicant for an authorization referred to in sub- section
(10) has furnished a notice of a kind referred to in sub-section 13 (7) of the
Companies (Foreign Take-overs) Act 1972-1973 to the Minister administering
that Act in relation to the acquisition of shares to which the application
relates and that Minister-

  (a)  has not, before the expiration of 1 month after the date on which the
notice was received by him, made an order under section 13 of that Act in
relation to the acquisition of those shares; or

  (b)  has made an interim order under sub-section 13 (6) of that Act in
relation to the acquisition of those shares and-

      (i)  has not, before the expiration of that interim order, made an order
under sub-section 13 (2) or (3) of that Act; or

     (ii)  has revoked that interim order and has not forthwith made an order
in relation to the acquisition of those shares under sub-section 13 (2) or (3)
of that Act,
sub-section (10) does not apply in relation to the acquisition of those
shares. 
  (13) If the applicant for an authorization referred to in sub-section (10)
furnishes to the Commission a statutory declaration by a competent officer of
the applicant in relation to a matter referred to in sub-section (12), that
statutory declaration shall, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary,
be accepted by the Commission as evidence of that matter.
  (14) For the purposes of sub-section (6), the prescribed date is-

  (a)  in the case of an application for an authorization in respect of a
proposed acquisition of shares in the capital of a body corporate that is a
company to which the Companies (Foreign Take-overs) Act 1972-1973 applies-

      (i)  in a case to which sub-paragraphs (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this
paragraph do not apply-the date on which a certificate given in respect of the
shares in accordance with sub-section 17 (1) of that Act is furnished to the
Commission;

     (ii)  in a case to which paragraph (12) (a) applies-the date referred to
in sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph or the last day of the period of 1
month referred to in paragraph (12) (a), whichever first occurs;

     (iii)  in a case to which sub-paragraph (12) (b) (i) applies-the date
referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph or the date of expiration
of the interim order, whichever first occurs; or

     (iv)  in a case to which sub-paragraph (12) (b) (ii) applies-the date
referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph or the date of revocation
of the interim order, whichever first occurs; and

  (b)  in any other case-the date on which the application is received by the
Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 91.
Grant, revocation and variation of authorizations.

  91. (1) An authorization may be expressed to be in force for a period

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specified in the authorization and, if so expressed, remains in force for that
period only.
  (2) If the Commission considers that it is appropriate to do so-

  (a)  for the purpose of enabling due consideration to be given to an
application for an authorization;

  (b)  pending the expiration of the time allowed for the making of an
application to the Tribunal for review of a determination by the Commission of
an application for an authorization and, if such an application for a review
is made, pending the making of a determination by the Tribunal on the review;
or

  (c) for any other reason,
the Commission may grant an authorization that is expressed to be an interim
authorization, and the Commission may at any time revoke such an
authorization. 
  (3) An authorization may be expressed to be subject to such conditions as
are specified in the authorization.
  (4) If, at any time after the Commission has granted an authorization, it
appears to the Commission that the authorization was granted on the basis of
evidence or information that was false or misleading in a material particular,
that a condition to which the authorization was expressed to be subject has
not been complied with or that there has been a material change of
circumstances since the authorization was granted-

  (a)  the Commission shall give notice accordingly to the corporation to
which the authorization was given and any other persons who appear to the
Commission to be interested and afford them a reasonable opportunity of making
submissions to the Commission in the matter; and

  (b)  where, after so notifying the corporation and other persons (if any)
and considering any submissions made by those persons, the Commission is
satisfied that the authorization was granted on the basis of evidence or
information that was false or misleading in a material particular, that the
condition has not been complied with or that there has been such a material
change of circumstances, the Commission may make a determination revoking the
authorization and, if it considers it appropriate to do so, granting a further
authorization in substitution for the authorization so revoked.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2
                             Division 2-Clearances


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 92.
Clearance of contracts, arrangements or understandings in restraint of trade
or commerce.

  92. (1) A corporation that is a party to, or proposes to make, a contract or
arrangement, or is a party to, or proposes to enter into, an understanding,
that may be in restraint of trade or commerce, may give notice, as prescribed,
of the contract, arrangement or understanding, or of the proposed contract,
arrangement or understanding, to the Commission.
  (2) Where a corporation so gives notice to the Commission, the Commission
may at any time give notice in writing to the corporation stating that the
Commission considers that any restraint of trade or commerce that results from
the contract, arrangement or understanding or would result from the proposed
contract, arrangement or understanding, does not have and is not likely to
have, or would not have and would not be likely to have, a significant effect
on competition, and, if the Commission gives such a notice, the contract,
arrangement or understanding shall be deemed not to be in restraint of trade
or commerce for the purposes of this Act.
  (3) If, at any time after the Commission has given a notice under
sub-section (2) to a corporation in relation to a contract, arrangement or
understanding, or a proposed contract, arrangement or understanding, the
Commission is satisfied that the notice was given on the basis of information
that was false or misleading in a material particular or that there has been a
material change of circumstances since the notice was given, the Commission
may revoke the notice and, in that case, sub- section (2) ceases to operate,
after the expiration of 30 days (or such longer period as the Commission by
writing permits) after notice in writing of the revocation has been served on
the corporation, to deem the contract, arrangement or understanding not to be
in restraint of trade or commerce for the purposes of this Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 93.
Clearance of exclusive dealing.

  93. (1) A corporation that proposes to engage in conduct of a kind referred
to in sub-section 47 (2) may give notice, as prescribed, of the proposed
conduct to the Commission.
  (2) Where a corporation so gives notice to the Commission, the Commission
may at any time give notice in writing to the corporation stating that the
Commission considers that the engaging by the corporation in the proposed
conduct would be likely to have the effect of substantially lessening
competition in a market for goods or services.
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sub-section (1), the engaging by the corporation in the conduct referred to in
the notice shall not be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be likely to
have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market for goods
or services unless the Commission has given notice to the corporation under
sub-section (2) in relation to the conduct and the conduct takes place more
than 30 days (or such longer period as the Commission by writing permits)
after the day on which the Commission gave the notice.
  (4) Where-

  (a)  a corporation has given a notice to the Commission under sub-section
(1) in relation to proposed conduct; and

  (b)  the Commission has given notice in writing to the corporation stating
that the Commission considers that the engaging by the corporation in the
proposed conduct would be likely to have the effect of substantially lessening
competition in a market for goods or services,
the corporation is not entitled to give a further notice under that sub-
section to the Commission in relation to the same conduct or conduct to the
like effect. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 94.
Clearance of mergers.

  94. (1) A corporation that proposes to acquire shares in the capital, or
assets, of a body corporate the acquisition of which by the corporation may be
in contravention of section 50 may give notice, as prescribed, of the proposed
acquisition to the Commission.
  (2) Where a corporation so gives notice to the Commission, the Commission
may, within 30 days after receiving the notice, give notice in writing to the
corporation stating whether or not the Commission considers that the proposed
acquisition would be likely to have the effect of substantially lessening
competition in a market for goods or services.
  (3) Where a corporation has given a notice to the Commission under
sub-section (1) and-

  (a)  the Commission gives notice to the corporation in accordance with
sub-section (2) stating that the Commission considers that the proposed
acquisition would not be likely to have the effect of substantially lessening
competition in a market for goods or services; or

  (b)  the Commission does not, within 30 days after receiving the notice,
give a notice to the corporation in accordance with sub-section (2) in
relation to the proposed acquisition,
the acquisition of the shares or assets by the corporation shall, for the
purposes of this Act, be deemed not to have the effect of substantially
lessening competition in a market for goods or services.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 95.
Register in relation to clearances.

  95. (1) The Commission shall keep a register containing-

  (a)  notices given to the Commission under sections 92, 93 and 94;

  (b)  documents furnished to the Commission in relation to such notices;

  (c)  particulars of any oral submissions made to the Commission in relation
to such notices;

  (d)  particulars of notices given by the Commission to corporations by which
notices under sections 92, 93 and 94 were given;

  (e)  particulars of any notices of revocation served, or permits given, by
the Commission under sub-section 92 (3); and

  (f)  particulars of any permits given by the Commission under sub-section 93
(3).
  (2) Where the Commission is satisfied that it is desirable to do so by
reason of the confidential nature of any document or for any other reason, the
Commission may direct that a document referred to in paragraph (1) (b) or (c)
shall not be included in the register kept under sub-section (1).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART VIII
                     PART VIII-RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 96.
Acts constituting engaging in resale price maintenance.

  96. (1) Subject to this Part, a corporation (in this section called "the
supplier") engages in the practice of resale price maintenance if that
corporation does an act referred to in any of the paragraphs of sub-section
(3). 
  (2) Subject to this Part, a person (not being a corporation and also in this
section called "the supplier") engages in the practice of resale price
maintenance if that person does an act referred to in any of the paragraphs of
sub-section (3) where the second person mentioned in that paragraph is a
corporation.

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  (3) The acts referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) are the following:-

  (a)  the supplier making it known to a second person that the supplier will
not supply goods to the second person unless the second person agrees not to
sell those goods at a price less than a price specified by the supplier;

  (b)  the supplier inducing, or attempting to induce, a second person not to
sell, at a price less than a price specified by the supplier, goods supplied
to the second person by the supplier or by a third person who, directly or
indirectly, has obtained the goods from the supplier;

  (c)  the supplier entering into an agreement, or offering to enter into an
agreement, for the supply of goods to a second person, being an agreement one
of the terms of which is, or would be, that the second person will not sell
the goods at a price less than a price specified, or that would be specified,
by the supplier;

  (d)  the supplier withholding the supply of goods to a second person for the
reason that the second person-

      (i)  has not agreed as mentioned in paragraph (a); or

     (ii)  has sold, or is likely to sell, goods supplied to him by the
supplier, or goods supplied to him by a third person who, directly or
indirectly, has obtained the goods from the supplier, at a price less than a
price specified by the supplier as the price below which the goods are not to
be sold;

  (e)  the supplier withholding the supply of goods to a second person for the
reason that a third person who, directly or indirectly, has obtained, or
wishes to obtain, goods from the second person-

      (i)  has not agreed not to sell those goods at a price less than a price
specified by the supplier; or

     (ii)  has sold, or is likely to sell, goods supplied to him, or to be
supplied to him, by the second person, at a price less than a price specified
by the supplier as the price below which the goods are not to be sold; and

  (f)  the supplier using, in relation to any goods supplied, or that may be
supplied, by the supplier to a second person, a statement of a price that is
likely to be understood by that person as the price below which the goods are
not to be sold.
  (4) For the purposes of sub-section (3)-

  (a)  where a price is specified by another person on behalf of the supplier,
it shall be deemed to have been specified by the supplier;

  (b)  where the supplier makes it known, in respect of goods, that the price
below which those goods are not to be sold is a price specified by another
person in respect of those goods, or in respect of goods of a like
description, that price shall be deemed to have been specified, in respect of
the first-mentioned goods, by the supplier;

  (c)  where a formula is specified by or on behalf of the supplier and a
price may be ascertained by calculation from, or by reference to, that
formula, that price shall be deemed to have been specified by the supplier;
and

  (d)  where the supplier makes it known, in respect of goods, that the price
below which those goods are not to be sold is a price ascertained by
calculation from, or by reference to, a formula specified by another person in
respect of those goods, or in respect of goods of a like description, that
price shall be deemed to have been specified, in respect of the
first-mentioned goods, by the supplier.
  (5) In sub-section (4), "formula" includes a set form or method.
  (6) For the purposes of sub-section (3), anything done by a person acting on
behalf of, or by arrangement with, the supplier shall be deemed to have been
done by the supplier.
  (7) A reference in any of paragraphs (3) (a) to (e), inclusive, including a
reference in negative form, to the selling of goods at a price less than a
price specified by the supplier shall be construed as including references
to-

  (a)  the advertising of goods for sale at a price less than a price
specified by the supplier as the price below which the goods are not to be
advertised for sale;

  (b)  the displaying of goods for sale at a price less than a price specified
by the supplier as the price below which the goods are not to be displayed for

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sale; and

  (c) the offering of goods for sale at a price less than a price specified by
the supplier as the price below which the goods are not to be offered for
sale, 
and a reference in paragraph (3) (d), (e) or (f) to a price below which the
goods are not to be sold shall be construed as including a reference to the
price below which the goods are not to be advertised for sale, to the price
below which the goods are not to be displayed for sale and to the price below
which the goods are not to be offered for sale.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 97.
Recommended prices.

  97. For the purposes of paragraph 96 (3) (b), the supplier is not to be
taken as inducing, or attempting to induce, a second person as mentioned in
that paragraph in relation to any goods-

  (a)  by reason only of a statement of a price being applied to the goods as
mentioned in paragraph 99 (1) (a) or being applied to a covering, label, reel
or thing as mentioned in paragraph 99 (1) (b), provided that the statement is
preceded by the words "recommended price"; or

  (b)  by reason only of his having given notification in writing to the
second person (not being a notification by way of a statement being applied as
mentioned in paragraph (a)) of the price that he recommends as appropriate for
the sale of those goods, provided that there is included in the notification,
and in each writing that refers, whether expressly or by implication, to the
notification, a statement to the following effect:-

    "The price set out or referred to herein is a recommended price only and
there is no obligation to comply with the recommendation.".

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 98.
Withholding the supply of goods.

  98. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 96 (3) (d) or (e), the supplier shall
be deemed to withhold the supply of goods to another person if-

  (a)  the supplier refuses or fails to supply those goods to, or as requested
by, the other person;

  (b)  the supplier refuses to supply those goods except on terms that are
disadvantageous to the other person;

  (c)  in supplying goods to the other person, the supplier treats that person
less favourably, whether in respect of time, method or place of delivery or
otherwise, than the supplier treats other persons to whom the supplier
supplies the same or similar goods; or

  (d)  the supplier causes or procures a person to withhold the supply of
goods to the other person as mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this
sub-section.
  (2) Paragraph 96 (3) (d) does not apply in relation to the withholding by
the supplier of the supply of goods to another person who, within the
preceding year, has sold goods obtained, directly or indirectly, from the
supplier at less than their cost to that other person-

  (a)  for the purpose of attracting to the establishment at which the goods
were sold persons likely to purchase other goods; or

  (b)  otherwise for the purpose of promoting the business of that other
person. 
  (3) For the purposes of sub-section (2), there shall be disregarded-

  (a)  a genuine seasonal or clearance sale of goods that were not acquired
for the purpose of being sold at that sale; or

  (b)  a sale of goods that took place with the consent of the supplier.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 99.
Statements as to the minimum price of goods.

  99. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 96 (3) (f), if-

  (a)  a statement is applied to goods, whether by being woven in, impressed
on, worked into or annexed or affixed to the goods or otherwise;

  (b)  a statement is applied to a covering, label, reel or thing in or with
which goods are supplied; or

  (c)  a statement is used in a sign, advertisement, invoice, catalogue,
business letter, business paper, price list or other document or otherwise in
a manner likely to lead to the belief that it refers to goods,
the statement shall be deemed to have been used in relation to those goods.
  (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), "covering" includes a stopper,

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glass, bottle, vessel, box, capsule, case, frame or wrapper and "label"
includes a band or ticket.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 100.
Evidentiary provisions.

  100. (1) Where, in proceedings under this Act by a person (in this section
referred to as "the plaintiff") against another person (in this section
referred to as "the defendant"), it is claimed that the defendant has engaged
in the practice of resale price maintenance and it is established that-

  (a)  the defendant has acted, in relation to the plaintiff, as mentioned in
paragraph 98 (1) (a), (b), (c) or (d);

  (b)  during a period ending immediately before the time when the defendant
so acted, the defendant had been supplying goods of the kind withheld to the
plaintiff or to another person carrying on a business similar to that of the
plaintiff; and

  (c)  during the period of 6 months immediately before the time when the
defendant so acted, the defendant became aware of a matter or circumstance
capable of constituting a reason referred to in paragraph 96 (3) (d) or (e)
for the defendant's so acting,
then, subject to sub-section (2), it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is
established, that that matter or circumstance was the reason for the
defendant's so acting.
  (2) Sub-section (1) does not apply where the plaintiff establishes the
matter mentioned in paragraph 98 (1) (b) or (c) but the terms disadvantageous
to the plaintiff, or the less favourable treatment of the plaintiff, consisted
only of a requirement by the defendant as to the time at which, or the form in
which, payment was to be made or as to the giving of security to secure
payment.
  (3) In the application of this section in proceedings by the
Attorney-General or the Commission for an injunction, references to the
plaintiff shall be construed as references to a person specified in the
application for the injunction as the person in relation to whom the defendant
is claimed to have acted as mentioned in paragraph (1) (a).

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART IX
       PART IX-REVIEW BY TRIBUNAL OF DETERMINATIONS OF COMMISSION


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1
                       Division 1-Applications for Review


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 101.
Applications for review.

  101. (1) A person dissatisfied with a determination by the Commission in
relation to an application for, or in relation to the revocation of, an
authorization, not being a determination granting an authorization in
pursuance of the requirements of sub-section 90 (9) or (11), may, as
prescribed and within the time allowed by or under the regulations, apply to
the Tribunal for a review of the determination and, if the person was the
applicant for the authorization or the Tribunal is satisfied that he has a
sufficient interest, the Tribunal shall review the determination.
(2) A review by the Tribunal is a re-hearing of the matter and sub-section 90
(5) applies in relation to the Tribunal in like manner as it applies in
relation to the Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 102.
Functions and powers of Tribunal.

  102. (1) Upon a review, the Tribunal may make a determination affirming,
setting aside or varying the determination of the Commission and, for the
purposes of the review, may perform all the functions and exercise all the
powers of the Commission.
  (2) A determination by the Tribunal shall, for the purposes of this Act
other than this Part, be deemed to be a determination by the Commission.
  (3) For the purposes of a review by the Tribunal, the member of the Tribunal
presiding at the review may require the Commission to furnish such
information, make such reports and provide such other assistance to the
Tribunal as the member specifies.
  (4) For the purposes of a review of a determination by the Commission, the
Tribunal may have regard to any information furnished, documents produced or
evidence given to the Commission in connexion with the making of the
determination.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2
                       Division 2-Procedure and Evidence


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 103.
Procedure generally.

  103. (1) In proceedings before the Tribunal-

  (a)  the procedure of the Tribunal is, subject to this Act and the
regulations, within the discretion of the Tribunal;

  (b)  the proceedings shall be conducted with as little formality and
technicality, and with as much expedition, as the requirements of this Act and
a proper consideration of the matters before the Tribunal permit; and

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  (c)  the Tribunal is not bound by the rules of evidence.
  (2) The powers of the Tribunal with respect to matters of procedure in
particular proceedings may be exercised by the Tribunal constituted by a
presidential member.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 104.
Regulations as to certain matters.

  104. The regulations may make provision-

  (a)  for securing, by means of preliminary statements of facts and
contentions, and by the production of documents, that all material facts and
considerations are brought before the Tribunal by all persons participating in
any proceedings before the Tribunal; and

  (b)  with respect to the representation in any such proceedings of persons
having a common interest in the proceedings.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 105.
Power to take evidence on oath.

  105. (1) The Tribunal may take evidence on oath or affirmation and for that
purpose a member of the Tribunal may administer an oath or affirmation.
  (2)  A member of the Tribunal may summon a person to appear before the
Tribunal to give evidence and to produce such documents (if any) as are
referred to in the summons.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 106.
Hearings to be in public except in special circumstances.

  106. (1) Subject to this section, the hearing of proceedings before the
Tribunal shall be in public.
  (2) Where the Tribunal is satisfied that it is desirable to do so by reason
of the confidential nature of any evidence or matter or for any other reason,
the Tribunal may-

  (a)  direct that a hearing or part of a hearing shall take place in private
and give directions as to the persons who may be present; or

  (b)  give directions prohibiting or restricting the publication of evidence
given before the Tribunal, whether in public or in private, or of matters
contained in documents filed or lodged with the Registrar, received in
evidence by the Tribunal or placed in the records of the Tribunal.
  (3) The powers of the Tribunal under this section may be exercised by the
Tribunal as constituted for the purposes of the hearing or by the Tribunal
constituted by a presidential member.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 107.
Evidence in form of written statement.

  107. The Tribunal may permit a person appearing as a witness before the
Tribunal to give evidence by tendering, and, if the Tribunal thinks fit,
verifying by oath or affirmation, a written statement, which shall be filed
with the Registrar.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 108.
Taking of evidence by single member.

  108. The Tribunal as constituted for the purposes of any proceedings in
which evidence may be taken may authorize a presidential member to take
evidence for the purposes of the proceedings on its behalf, with such
limitations (if any) as the Tribunal so constituted directs, and, where such
an authority is given-

  (a)  that member may take evidence accordingly; and

  (b)  for the purposes of this Act, that member shall, in relation to the
taking of evidence in accordance with the authority, be deemed to constitute
the Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 109.
Participants in proceedings before Tribunal.

  109. (1) A person to whom an authorization was granted is entitled to
participate in any proceedings before the Tribunal instituted by another
person in relation to that authorization.
  (2) The Tribunal may, upon such conditions as it thinks fit, permit a person
to intervene in proceedings before the Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 110.
Representation.

  110. In proceedings before the Tribunal-

  (a)  a person other than a body corporate may appear in person or may be
represented by an employee of the person approved by the Tribunal;

  (b)  a body corporate may be represented by an employee, or a director or
other officer, of the body corporate approved by the Tribunal;

  (c)  an unincorporated association of persons or a member of an
unincorporated association of persons may be represented by a member or
officer of the association approved by the Tribunal; and

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  (d)  any person may be represented by a barrister or a solicitor of the
Supreme Court of a State or Territory or of the High Court.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART X
                       PART X-OVERSEAS CARGO SHIPPING


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1
                             Division 1-Preliminary


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 111.
Interpretation.

  111. (1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears-

  "Australian flag shipping operator" means-

     (a)  for the purposes of the making of an order under section 123-a
person who carries on, or proposes to carry on, operations by way of overseas
cargo shipping between ports between which any of the outwards cargo shipping
to which the relevant conference agreement relates is carried on; or

     (b)  for the purposes of the making of an order under section 129-a
person who carries on, or proposes to carry on, operations by way of overseas
cargo shipping between Australia and the port or ports to be specified in the
order,

    being a person who normally uses, or proposes normally to use, for the
purposes of those operations, a ship or ships registered in Australia and no
other ship, and being an Australian citizen or a body corporate incorporated
by or under a law of Australia or of a State or Territory;

  "Clerk" means the Clerk of Shipping Agreements appointed under this Part and
includes a person appointed to act as Clerk of Shipping Agreements;

  "conference agreement" means an agreement to which this Part applies;

  "declared shipowner" means a shipowner in respect of whom an order under
section 129 is in force;

  "disapproved agreement" means a conference agreement in respect of which an
order of disapproval under this Part is in force;

  "outwards cargo shipping" means overseas cargo shipping commencing at a
place in Australia;

  "overseas cargo shipping" means the carriage of goods wholly or partly by
sea from a place in Australia to a place outside Australia or from a place
outside Australia to a place in Australia;

  "shipowner" means a person who carries on the business of outwards cargo
shipping, whether alone or in partnership with another person or other
persons, and includes such a person irrespective of nationality or place of
incorporation, residence or business;

  "shipper body" means an association that, in the opinion of the Minister,
represents the interests, in relation to outwards cargo shipping, of persons
who are shippers of goods, or producers of goods of a kind exported from
Australia. 
  (2) For the purposes of this Part-

  (a)  an arrangement or understanding, whether formal or informal and whether
express or implied, shall be deemed to be an agreement;

  (b)  a reference to an agreement shall be read as including a reference to
an agreement made outside Australia and to an agreement made before the
commencement of this Part; and

  (c)  a reference to an agreement shall be read as including a reference to
an agreement that is not enforceable by legal proceedings whether or not it
was intended to be so enforceable.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 112.
Part IV not to apply.

  112. Part IV does not apply in relation to overseas cargo shipping engaged
in by a shipowner in pursuance of a conference agreement, including a
disapproved agreement.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 113.
Agreements to which Part applies.

  113. (1) Subject to this section, an agreement is an agreement to which this
Part applies if the agreement, whether as originally made or by reason of a
subsequent variation, is one the parties to which are or include two or more
persons carrying on two or more businesses that include outwards cargo
shipping and is one that makes provision, in relation to outwards cargo
shipping, having the purpose or effect of restricting, preventing or

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hindering-

  (a)  competition between any of the parties to the agreement; or

  (b)  competition between persons other than those parties and those parties
or any of them,
including provision for-

  (c)  the fixing or regulation of freight rates;

  (d)  the giving to shippers, or the withholding from shippers, of special
rates or other special privileges or advantages;

  (e)  the pooling or apportioning of earnings, losses or traffic;

  (f)  the allocation of ports or the restriction or other regulation of the
number and character of sailings between ports; or

  (g)  the restriction or other regulation of the volume or character of goods
to be carried.
  (2) An agreement is not an agreement to which this Part applies by reason
only of any provision as between shipowners of the one part and shippers of
the other part with respect to the terms and conditions that are to be
applicable to contracts for outwards cargo shipping.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 114.
Shipowners may be required to be represented by agent and give address for
service.

  114. (1) The Minister may, by notice in writing to a shipowner served as
prescribed, request the shipowner to comply with the provisions of this
section, and, where such a request has been made, the provisions of
sub-sections (2) to (7) apply.
  (2) The shipowner (not being a natural person resident in Australia) shall,
at all times after the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the
notice, be represented for the purposes of this Part by a person (not being a
body corporate) resident in Australia and appointed by the shipowner as the
agent of the shipowner for the purposes of this Part.
  (3) The appointment shall not be deemed to be duly made or revoked until the
shipowner has given notice in writing of the appointment or revocation to the
Minister, specifying the name, and, in the case of an appointment, the place
of residence, of the agent.
  (4) Everything done by the agent in his representative capacity shall, for
the purposes of this Part, be deemed to have been done by the shipowner, but
not so as to affect any liability of the agent under this Part.
  (5) The shipowner shall, at all times after the expiration of 14 days from
the date of service of the notice, have an address in Australia for service
for the purposes of this Part.
  (6) The address does not become the address for service of the shipowner
until the shipowner has given notice in writing of the address to the
Minister, and an address so notified continues to be the address for service
of the shipowner until another address has been so notified.
  (7) A document or notice required or permitted to be served on, or given to,
the shipowner under or for the purposes of this Part, including process of the
Court, may, notwithstanding any other law, be served or given by leaving it at
his address for service or by serving it by registered post on the shipowner
at that address.
  (8) Where a shipowner has given notice in writing to the Minister of the
appointment of an agent of the shipowner, or of an address in Australia of the
shipowner for service, for the purposes of this Part, the notice shall, for
the purposes of sub-section (4) or (7), as the case requires, be deemed to
have been given in accordance with a request made by the Minister in pursuance
of sub-section (1).
  (9) Failure to comply with this section is not an offence but entails the
consequences specified in this Part.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2
                   Division 2-Filing of Conference Agreements


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 115.
Clerk of Shipping Agreements.

  115. (1) There shall be a Clerk of Shipping Agreements, who shall be
appointed by the Governor-General.
  (2) Where the Clerk of Shipping Agreements is, or is expected to be, absent
from duty or the office of Clerk of Shipping Agreements is vacant, the
Governor-General may appoint a person to act as Clerk of Shipping Agreements
during the absence or until the filling of the vacancy, as the case may be.
  (3) The Clerk, and any staff necessary to assist him, shall be persons
employed under the Public Service Act 1922-1973.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 116.
Agreements subject to filing.

  116. (1) An agreement made before the commencing date that is, on that date,
an agreement to which this Part applies becomes subject to filing on that
date. 

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  (2) An agreement made on or after that date that is, when made, an agreement
to which this Part applies becomes subject to filing upon the making of the
agreement.
  (3) An agreement to which this Part applies, whether made before or after
that date, that becomes subject to filing at a time after the making of the
agreement, being a time on or after the commencing date, becomes subject to
filing at that time.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 117.
Particulars to be furnished of certain agreements, variations and determinations.

  117. (1) Where a conference agreement has become subject to filing,
particulars of the agreement, in accordance with this section and verified as
required by this section, shall be furnished to the Clerk within the period of
30 days after the date on which the agreement became subject to filing.
  (2) In the case of a conference agreement that becomes subject to filing on
a date after the date of making of the agreement, the particulars required to
be furnished are particulars of the agreement as varied, whether in respect of
the parties or in respect of the terms, by any variations made on or before
the date on which the agreement becomes subject to filing.
  (3) The duty to furnish particulars under this section in respect of a
conference agreement that has become subject to filing is not affected by any
subsequent variation or determination of the agreement and if, at any time
after a conference agreement becomes subject to filing, the agreement is
varied, whether in respect of the parties or in respect of the terms, or is
determined otherwise than by effluxion of time, then, except as otherwise
prescribed, particulars of the variation or determination, verified as
required by this section, shall be furnished to the Clerk within the period of
30 days after the day on which the variation or determination occurs.
  (4) The requirements of this section may be complied with-

  (a)  in respect of an agreement-by any party to the agreement; or

  (b)  in respect of a variation or determination of an agreement-by any
person who was a party to the agreement immediately before, or is a party
immediately after, the variation or determination.
  (5) Subject to the regulations, the particulars to be furnished of an
agreement are-

  (a)  the names of the parties to the agreement and the date of the
agreement; and

  (b)  the whole of the terms of the agreement, whether or not relating to
overseas cargo shipping.
  (6) The particulars to be furnished of an agreement, or of a variation or
determination of an agreement, shall be furnished-

  (a)  in so far as the particulars are contained in an instrument in writing
by which the agreement, variation or determination was, in whole or in part,
made or effected-by lodging with the Clerk a true copy of that instrument;
and

  (b)  in so far as the particulars are not contained in such an instrument,
whether or not there is such an instrument-by lodging with the Clerk a
memorandum of those particulars,
verified as a true copy or a full and correct memorandum, as the case
requires, by statutory declaration of the person by whom the particulars are
furnished or of a competent person authorized by that person.
  (7) The regulations may provide for excluding any particulars from the
particulars required to be furnished under this Division.
  (8) A person referred to in sub-section (4) may, before the expiration of
the time within which, but for this sub-section, the particulars are required
to be furnished, apply in writing to the Minister for an extension of that
time and, where such an application is made, the time within which the
particulars are required to be furnished shall be taken not to expire-

  (a)  whether or not the application is granted-before the expiration of 14
days after the date on which the Minister informs the applicant in writing of
his decision on the application; or

  (b)  if the application is granted-before the expiration of the period of
the extension granted by the Minister.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 118.
Failure to furnish particulars to be an offence.

  118. (1) If the requirements of section 117 are not complied with in respect
of an agreement, each person who was a party to the agreement when it became
subject to filing is guilty of an offence.
  (2) If the requirements of section 117 are not complied with in respect of a
variation or determination of an agreement, each person who was a party to the
agreement immediately before, or immediately after, the variation or
determination is guilty of an offence.
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$2,000.
  (4) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this section if
the person charged satisfies the Court that-

  (a)  he did not, within the time allowed for the furnishing of the
particulars, advert to the question whether particulars of the agreement,
variation or determination were required by this Act to be furnished to the
Clerk and his failure to advert to that question was not attributable to a
desire to avoid, or to indifference to, his obligations;

  (b)  he reasonably relied on another party to ensure that the required
particulars were duly furnished; or

  (c)  he believed in good faith that particulars of the agreement, variation
or determination furnished to the Clerk by him within the time allowed
complied with the requirements of this Act,
and that either the particulars, or the necessary further or amended
particulars, were duly furnished, except as regards time, by himself or
another party before the institution of the prosecution or he did not know or
suspect, before the institution of the prosecution, that there had been
default in compliance with the requirements of this Act with respect to the
furnishing to the Clerk of particulars of the agreement, variation or
determination.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 119.
Clerk to file particulars.

  119. (1) Where particulars of an agreement, or of a variation or
determination of an agreement, are duly furnished to the Clerk in accordance
with this Division, or where those particulars are duly furnished except that
the time allowed for furnishing the particulars has expired, the Clerk shall
file the document containing the particulars in a repository of such documents
to be kept by him.
  (2) The Clerk shall keep such records and indexes of documents received by
him under this Division as he thinks necessary or as the Minister directs.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 120.
Filed documents to be evidence.

  120. In proceedings under this Act before the Court, other than proceedings
for an offence against a provision of this Division, particulars of an
agreement, or of a variation or determination of an agreement, as appearing
from a document filed by the Clerk are prima facie evidence of the agreement,
variation or determination.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 121.
Secrecy.

  121. (1) This section applies to every person who is or has been the Clerk
or a member of the staff assisting the Clerk.
  (2) Subject to this section, a person to whom this section applies shall
not, either directly or indirectly, except in the performance of a duty under
or in connexion with this Part-

  (a)  make a record of, or divulge or communicate to any person, any
information concerning the affairs of another person acquired by him by reason
of his office or employment under or for the purposes of this Part; or

  (b)  produce to any person a document furnished in pursuance of this
Division. 

  Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.
  (3) A person to whom this section applies shall not be required to produce
in a court any document relating to the affairs of another person of which he
has the custody, or to which he has access, by virtue of his office or
employment under or for the purposes of this Part, or to divulge or
communicate to any court any information concerning the affairs of another
person obtained by him by reason of any such office or employment, unless it
is necessary to do so for the purposes of, or of a prosecution under or
arising out of, this Part.
  (4) This section does not apply in relation to-

  (a)  the communication of information to, or the production of a document
to, the Tribunal for the purposes of an inquiry under this Part, the Minister
or an officer acting on behalf of, and with the authority of, the Minister;
or

  (b)  the communication or production to a person of, or of information or
documents concerning, particulars furnished to the Clerk of an agreement to
which, according to those particulars, that person is or has been a party.
  (5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) (b), the communication or production
of any matter or document to a person authorized by writing under the common
seal of a body corporate to represent the body corporate for the purposes of
this section shall be deemed to be communication or production to that body
corporate.
  (6) In this section-

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  "court" includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require
the production of documents or the answering of questions;

  "produce" includes permit access to and "production" has a corresponding
meaning.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 3
             Division 3-Powers in relation to Conference Agreements


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 122.
Minister may request undertakings.

  122. (1) The Minister may serve on each of the parties to a conference
agreement who carry on outwards cargo shipping to which the agreement relates
a notice in accordance with this section.
  (2) A notice to a party under sub-section (1) shall request the party to
give to the Minister, not later than a date specified in the notice, an
undertaking in writing executed by the party that, whenever the party is
reasonably requested by the designated shipper body, by notice in writing, to
take part in negotiations with that shipper body with regard to arrangements
for, and the terms and conditions that are to be applicable to, outwards cargo
shipping to which the conference agreement relates-

  (a)  the party will take part in those negotiations and will have due regard
to matters and considerations raised, and representations made, by the
designated shipper body in the course of the negotiations;

  (b)  the party will cause an officer designated from time to time by the
Minister to be furnished with such information as the officer requires
concerning the progress of the negotiations, will permit that officer to be
present at any meetings in the course of the negotiations and will give
consideration to any suggestions that he may make; and

  (c)  if the designated shipper body requests the party to make available for
the purposes of the negotiations any information that is reasonably necessary
for those purposes and itself makes available for those purposes any such
information that the parties or any of them request to be made available, the
party will make available the information requested by the shipper body.
  (3) An undertaking for the purposes of this section shall be deemed to be
duly given notwithstanding that it contains qualifications or exceptions if
they were permitted by the notice requesting the undertaking or have been
accepted by the Minister by notice in writing to the party.
  (4) A person on whom a notice has been served under sub-section (1) may,
before the date specified in the notice, apply in writing to the Minister for
an extension of the time for compliance with the notice and, where such an
application is made, the time within which the notice is to be complied with
shall be taken not to expire-

  (a)  whether or not the application is granted-before the expiration of 14
days after the date on which the Minister informs the applicant in writing of
his decision on the application; or

  (b)  if the application is granted-before the expiration of the period of
the extension granted by the Minister.
  (5) The designated officer may appoint an officer or officers to be his
deputy or deputies and any undertaking given for the purposes of this section
by a party to a conference agreement shall be deemed to include an undertaking
that the party will-

  (a)  cause a deputy so appointed to be furnished with such information as
the deputy requires concerning the progress of the negotiations with the
designated shipper body; and

  (b)  in the event of the absence of the designated officer from a meeting in
the course of the negotiations, permit the deputy, or, if there is more than
one deputy, one of the deputies, to be present at that meeting and give
consideration to any suggestions that he may make.
  (6) In this section-

  "designated officer" means the officer designated by the Minister under
paragraph (2) (b);

  "designated shipper body" means the shipper body designated by the Minister
in the notice requesting the undertaking.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 123.
Disapproval of agreements.

  123. (1) The Governor-General may, by order, disapprove a conference
agreement, whether or not particulars of the agreement have been furnished to
the Clerk, on a ground specified in the order, being one of the following
grounds:-

  (a)  that a party to the agreement has, without reasonable excuse, failed to

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comply with section 114;

  (b)  that there has been a failure to comply with a request for the giving
of an undertaking made by the Minister under section 122 in relation to the
agreement;

  (c)  that the Governor-General is satisfied, after consideration of a report
to the Minister by the Tribunal, that-

      (i)  there has been a failure to comply with an undertaking given under
section 122 in relation to the agreement;

     (ii)  the agreement, or the manner in which it is being interpreted or
applied by the parties, or the conduct of, or the provision of facilities by,
the parties in relation to outwards cargo shipping to which the agreement
relates does not have due regard to the need for services by way of overseas
cargo shipping to be efficient, economical and adequate; or

     (iii)  the agreement, or the manner in which it is being interpreted or
applied by the parties, or the conduct of the parties in relation to matters
to which the agreement relates, is preventing a person from, or hindering a
person in, engaging efficiently, to an extent that is reasonable, in overseas
cargo shipping in relation to which he is an Australian flag shipping
operator.
  (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) (c) (ii), consideration shall be
given to the need to ensure the continuing provision of services by way of
overseas cargo shipping and, in that connexion, the conditions under which, on
a long term view, shipowners may reasonably be expected to provide such
services. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 124.
Effect of disapproval.

  124. (1) Where an agreement is disapproved under this Division, the
agreement becomes, upon the date on which the order of disapproval takes
effect, unenforceable as regards observance of the agreement, so far as it
relates to outwards cargo shipping, on and after that date, but a transaction
entered into, whether before or after the order takes effect, in pursuance of
the agreement is not illegal or unenforceable by reason only of the making of
the order.
  (2) A party to a disapproved agreement shall not-

  (a)  do any act or thing in pursuance of, or enforce or purport to enforce,
the agreement (including the agreement as varied by any later agreement) so
far as it relates to outwards cargo shipping;

  (b)  enter into any other conference agreement (whether with the same
parties or with other parties) that relates, in whole or in part, to the
carriage of goods from Australia to a place outside Australia that is a place
to the carriage of goods to which the disapproved agreement related; or

  (c)  do any act or thing in pursuance of, or enforce or purport to enforce,
an agreement referred to in paragraph (b).

  Penalty: $50,000.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 125.
Reinstatement of disapproved agreement or approval of substituted agreement.

  125. (1) Where, in his discretion, he considers it desirable to do so, the
Governor-General may-

  (a)  by order, revoke an order disapproving a conference agreement; or

  (b)  approve the entering into by one or more of the parties to a
disapproved agreement of another conference agreement, whether with or without
parties who were not parties to the disapproved agreement.
  (2)  Paragraphs 124 (2) (b) and (c) do not apply in relation to a conference
agreement in respect of which an approval has been given under this section
and which has not been disapproved under this Division.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 126.
Injunctions.

  126. The Court is empowered, on the application of the Minister, to grant an
injunction restraining a person who has been convicted of an offence against
section 124 from further contravening that section.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 127.
Publication and commencement of orders.

  127. An order under this Division-

  (a)  shall be published in the Gazette; and

  (b)  takes effect on the date of publication or on such later date as is
fixed by the order.

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             Division 4-Powers in relation to Individual Shipowners


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 128.
Minister may request undertakings.

  128. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), the Minister may serve on a shipowner a
notice requesting the shipowner to give to the Minister, not later than a date
specified in the notice, an undertaking in writing executed by the shipowner
that, whenever the shipowner is reasonably requested by the designated shipper
body, by notice in writing, to take part in negotiations with that shipper
body with regard to arrangements for, and the terms and conditions that are to
be applicable to, outwards cargo shipping to which the notice relates-

  (a)  the shipowner will take part in those negotiations and will have due
regard to matters and considerations raised, and representations made, by the
designated shipper body in the course of the negotiations;

  (b)  the shipowner will cause an officer designated from time to time by the
Minister to be furnished with such information as the officer requires
concerning the progress of the negotiations, will permit that officer to be
present at any meetings in the course of the negotiations and will give
consideration to any suggestions that he may make; and

  (c)  if the designated shipper body requests the shipowner to make available
for the purposes of the negotiations any information that is reasonably
necessary for those purposes and itself makes available for those purposes any
such information that the shipowner requests to be made available, the
shipowner will make available the information requested by the shipper body.
  (2) A notice under sub-section (1) requesting an undertaking shall be
expressed to relate to outwards cargo shipping by the shipowner to a specified
port or to specified ports, not being outwards cargo shipping that is within
the operation of a conference agreement, not being a disapproved agreement,
particulars of which have been furnished under Division 2.
  (3) An undertaking for the purposes of this section shall be deemed to be
duly given notwithstanding that it contains qualifications or exceptions if
they were permitted by the notice requesting the undertaking or have been
accepted by the Minister by notice in writing to the shipowner.
  (4) A shipowner on whom a notice has been served under sub- section (1) may,
before the date specified in the notice, apply in writing to the Minister for
an extension of the time for compliance with the notice and, where such an
application is made, the time within which the notice is to be complied with
shall be taken not to expire-

  (a)  whether or not the application is granted-before the expiration of 14
days after the date on which the Minister informs the applicant in writing of
his decision on the application; or

  (b)  if the application is granted-before the expiration of the period of
the extension granted by the Minister.
  (5) The designated officer may appoint an officer or officers to be his
deputy or deputies and any undertaking given for the purposes of this section
by a shipowner shall be deemed to include an undertaking that the shipowner
will-

  (a)  cause a deputy so appointed to be furnished with such information as
the deputy requires concerning the progress of the negotiations with the
designated shipper body; and

  (b)  in the event of the absence of the designated officer from a meeting in
the course of the negotiations, permit the deputy, or, if there is more than
one deputy, one of the deputies, to be present at that meeting and give
consideration to any suggestions that he may make.
  (6) In this section-

  "designated officer" means the officer designated by the Minister under
paragraph (1) (b);

  "designated shipper body" means the shipper body designated by the Minister
in the notice requesting the undertaking.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 129.
Declaration of shipowners.

  129. (1) Subject to this section, the Governor-General may, by order,
declare a shipowner to be, in relation to outwards cargo shipping to a port or
the ports specified in the order (in this section referred to as the "relevant
shipping"), a shipowner to whom section 130 applies.
  (2) The Governor-General shall not make such an order except on a ground
specified in the order, being one of the following grounds:-

  (a)  that the shipowner has, without reasonable excuse, failed to comply
with section 114;

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of an undertaking made by the Minister under section 128 in relation to the
relevant shipping;

  (c)  that the Governor-General is satisfied, after consideration of a report
to the Minister by the Tribunal, that-

      (i)  the shipowner has failed to comply with an undertaking given under
section 128 in relation to the relevant shipping;

     (ii)  the conduct of, or provision of facilities by, the shipowner in
relation to the relevant shipping does not have due regard to the need for
services by way of overseas cargo shipping to be efficient, economical and
adequate;

     (iii)  the conduct of the shipowner in relation to overseas cargo
shipping between Australia and a port or the ports to be specified in the
order is preventing a person from, or hindering a person in, engaging
efficiently, to an extent that is reasonable, in overseas cargo shipping in
relation to which he is an Australian flag shipping operator; or

     (iv)  a conference agreement to which the shipowner was a party, being an
agreement that related in whole or in part to the relevant shipping, has been
disapproved under this Part and the disapproval has not been revoked.
  (3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) (c) (ii), consideration shall be
given to the need to ensure the continuing provision of services, by way of
overseas cargo shipping and, in that connexion, the conditions under which, on
a long term view, shipowners may reasonably be expected to provide such
services. 
  (4) Where, in his discretion, he considers it desirable to do so, the
Governor-General may, by order, revoke an order under sub-section (1).
  (5) An order under this section-

  (a)  shall be published in the Gazette; and

  (b)  takes effect on the date of publication or on such later date as is
fixed by the order.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 130.
Prohibitions applicable to declared shipowner.

  130. A declared shipowner shall not, in respect of outwards cargo shipping
to a port specified in the order by virtue of which he is a declared
shipowner-

  (a)  enter into a contract, or follow a practice, under which a shipper-

      (i)  is subject to restrictions with respect to, or is subject to any
detriment by reason of or in the event of, his giving patronage to another
shipowner; or

     (ii)  obtains or may obtain advantageous freight rates on condition that,
or by reason that, he gives all or a part of his patronage to the shipowner,
or to two or more particular shipowners;

  (b)  pay or allow, or make an agreement to pay or allow, to a shipper a
deferred rebate, that is to say, a rebate of portion of any freight money upon
fulfilment by the shipper of a condition with respect to confining patronage
to the shipowner or to two or more particular shipowners;

  (c)  with the object of substantially damaging the business of another
shipowner or preventing another shipowner from entering into competition with
him, engage in freight-cutting, or use a vessel, whether alone or in
conjunction with any other shipowner, to forestall the first-mentioned
shipowner in the obtaining of cargoes; or

  (d)  retaliate, or threaten to retaliate, against a shipper for giving
patronage to another shipowner-

      (i)  by refusing, or threatening to refuse, to carry goods of the
shipper or to carry goods of the shipper otherwise than on terms
disadvantageous to the shipper; or

     (ii)  by resorting to other discriminatory measures.

  Penalty: $50,000.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 131.
Injunctions.

  131. The Court is empowered, on the application of the Minister, to grant an
injunction restraining a person who has been convicted of an offence against
section 130 from further contravening that section.

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                               Division 5-General

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TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 132.
Minister may refer certain matters to Tribunal.

  132. (1) The Minister may refer to the Tribunal for inquiry and report any
matter relevant to the exercise of the power of the Governor-General to make
an order upon a ground specified in paragraph 123 (1) (c) or 129 (2) (c), and
the Tribunal shall hold an inquiry, and make a report accordingly.
  (2) For the purposes of an inquiry under this section-

  (a)  the Tribunal shall, subject to section 43, be constituted by a Division
of the Tribunal consisting of a presidential member and two members who are
not presidential members;

  (b)  section 43 applies as if the holding of the inquiry, and the making of
a report on the inquiry, were the hearing and determining of proceedings; and

  (c)  sections 109 and 110 do not apply.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 133.
Minister to consult with shipowners before making reference.

  133. The Minister shall not refer a matter to the Tribunal under section 132
unless he has first carried on, or endeavoured to carry on, either personally
or through officers acting on his behalf and with his authority, consultations
with the parties to the conference agreement concerned who carry on overseas
cargo shipping, or with the shipowner concerned, as the case requires, with a
view to securing such undertaking or action by those parties or by that
shipowner as will render the proposed reference unnecessary.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 134.
Representation.

  134. (1) In an inquiry under this Division in respect of a matter arising
under section 123, any party to the conference agreement concerned is entitled
to be represented.
  (2) In an inquiry under this Division in respect of a matter arising under
section 129, the shipowner concerned is entitled to be represented.
  (3) In an inquiry under this Division-

  (a)  the Minister is entitled to be represented;

  (b)  if the Tribunal is satisfied that a shipper body has a sufficient
interest in the inquiry, the Tribunal shall grant to the shipper body leave to
be represented; and

  (c)  the Tribunal may grant to any person appearing to it to have a
sufficient interest in the inquiry leave to be represented.
  (4) The representation of a person or body in an inquiry under this Division
shall be-

  (a)  by a barrister or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of a State or
Territory or of the High Court; or

  (b)  by a person approved by the Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 135.
Undertakings to Tribunal.

  135. (1) In connexion with an inquiry under this Division, the Tribunal may
receive an undertaking to the Tribunal by a shipowner with respect to a matter
appearing to the Tribunal to be relevant to the operation of this Part.
  (2) The Minister may withdraw a reference of a matter to the Tribunal under
this Division upon the giving of an undertaking under sub-section (1) to the
satisfaction of the Minister.
  (3) An undertaking to the Tribunal under this section shall not, unless the
contrary intention appears expressly from the terms of the undertaking, be
construed as an admission as to any matter.
  (4) The Tribunal shall record in writing an undertaking received or given
for the purposes of this section and the writing shall be placed in the
records of the Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 136.
Failure to comply with undertaking to be contempt of Tribunal.

  136. A person who-

  (a)  fails to comply with an undertaking given to the Tribunal under this
Part;

  (b)  aids, abets, counsels or procures, or is in any way directly or
indirectly knowingly concerned in, or party to, a failure to comply with such
an undertaking; or

  (c)  does an act or thing with the intention of evading or frustrating such
an undertaking or causing or encouraging the evasion or frustration of such an
undertaking,
is guilty of a contempt of the Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 137.
Punishment of contempt.

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  137. (1) A contempt of the Tribunal referred to in section 136 is punishable
by the Court as if it were a contempt of the Court and jurisdiction is
conferred on the Court to hear and determine proceedings in respect of such a
contempt.
  (2) Subject to this section, a proceeding in respect of such a contempt
shall be instituted, carried on, heard and determined in accordance with the
laws applicable to and in relation to the punishment of contempts of the
Court.
  (3) In so far as any such law is incapable of application, the Court may
give a direction as to the manner of instituting, carrying on, hearing or
determining a proceeding referred to in sub-section (2).
  (4) For the purposes of proceedings under this section, the Court shall be
constituted by not less than three Judges.
  (5) Proceedings before the Court in accordance with this section shall not
be instituted except with the consent in writing of the Minister.
  (6) A reference in a law of Australia to an offence against a law of
Australia shall be read as including a reference to a contempt referred to in
this Part.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 138.
Protection of certain persons.

  138. Where a person enters into, or purports to enter into, a transaction
that involves a failure by him to comply with an undertaking given to the
Tribunal, a person who is not bound by the undertaking has the same rights and
title, whether as a party to the transaction or as a person claiming directly
or indirectly under a party to the transaction, as he would have had if the
transaction had not involved such a failure.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 139.
Publication of reports of Tribunal.

  139. (1) Where the Tribunal has made a report to the Minister under this
Division, the Minister shall-

  (a)  upon the expiration of a period of 60 days after the date on which he
received the report; or

  (b)  if, before the expiration of that period, the Governor-General makes an
order after consideration of the report, immediately after the making of the
order,
direct the Registrar to make the report public.
  (2) After a direction has been given under sub-section (1) in respect of a
report, a person may, on payment of the prescribed fee (if any)-

  (a)  inspect a copy of the report at the office of the Registrar; or

  (b)  obtain a copy of the report certified to be a true copy under the hand
of the Registrar or of a Deputy Registrar.
  (3) Section 165 does not apply in relation to a report of the Tribunal under
this Division.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 140.
Institution of prosecutions.

  140. (1) For the purpose of proceedings before the Court for an offence
against this Part, the references in paragraph 163 (4) (b) to the
Attorney-General shall be read as references to the Minister.
  (2) Proceedings before the Court in respect of a contempt of the Court in
relation to an injunction under this Part shall not be instituted except with
the consent in writing of the Minister.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 141.
Aiding and abetting.

  141. (1) A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures, or is in any way
directly or indirectly knowingly concerned in, or party to-

  (a)  the commission of an offence against this Part; or

  (b)  the doing of an act or thing outside Australia that would, if done
within Australia, be an offence against this Part,
shall be deemed to have committed the offence and is punishable accordingly.
  (2) The references in sub-section (1) to an offence against this Part shall
be read as including references to a contempt of the Court in relation to an
injunction under this Part.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 142.
Protection of certain persons.

  142. Where a person enters into, or purports to enter into, a contract of
carriage or other transaction that involves an offence by him against this
Part or a breach by him of an injunction of the Court under this Part, a
person who was not guilty of such an offence or breach in relation to the
transaction has the same rights, whether as a party to the transaction or as a
person claiming directly or indirectly under a party to the transaction, as he
would have had if the contract or transaction had not involved such an offence
or breach.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 143.
Constitution of Court.

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  143. For the purposes of proceedings in respect of a contempt of the Court
consisting of failure to comply with an injunction under this Part, the Court
shall be constituted by not less than three Judges.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 6
        Division 6-Civil Remedies in relation to Overseas Cargo Shipping


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 144.
Actions for damages.

  144. (1) Subject to this section, a shipper, shipowner or other person who
suffers loss or damage by an act of another person done in contravention of
section 124 or 130 may recover the amount of the loss or damage by action
against that other person.
  (2) Jurisdiction is conferred on the Court to hear and determine actions
under this section and that jurisdiction is exclusive of the jurisdiction of
any other court, other than the jurisdiction of the High Court under section
75 of the Constitution.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 145.
Deferment of action on application of Minister.

  145. The court in which an action under this Division is instituted may, on
the application of the Minister, defer or adjourn the hearing of the action
where it is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to do so having
regard to any pending or possible prosecution or proceedings for an injunction
or for contempt of the Court arising out of disobedience to an injunction.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 146.
Findings in contempt proceedings to be evidence.

  146. In proceedings against a person under this Division, a finding of a
fact by the Court in proceedings under, or arising out of, this Part in
which-

  (a)  that person has been found guilty of an offence against a provision of
Division 3 or of Division 4;

  (b)  an injunction has been granted against that person; or

  (c)  that person has been found guilty of contempt of the Court,
is prima facie evidence of the fact and the finding may be proved by
production of a document under the seal of the Court from which the finding
appears.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART XI
                             PART XI-TRANSITIONAL


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 147.
Continuation of certain appointments and proceedings.

  147. (1) A person named in an instrument of appointment to an office made
under a provision of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 or of that Act
as amended, but not including a person who had ceased to hold his office
before the commencing date, shall, if a corresponding office exists under this
Act, be deemed to have been appointed to that corresponding office and holds
office for the remainder of the period of his appointment under the
Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971-1973 as if appointed under this Act.
  (2) Any proceedings instituted by the Commissioner of Trade Practices before
the commencing date under section 102 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act
1971-1973 have effect as if they had been instituted by the Commission under
section 80 of this Act on that date and everything done in relation to those
proceedings before that date has effect as if it had been done under this Act
or the regulations, as the case requires.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 148.
Commission may retain certain documents.

  148. The Commission is entitled to obtain and retain custody of-

  (a)  any document or copy of, or extract from, a document retained
immediately before the commencing date by the Commissioner of Trade Practices
under section 148 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971-1973;

  (b)  any document furnished under section 42 of the Restrictive Trade
Practices Act 1971 or of that Act as amended;

  (c)  any document produced under section 166 of the Restrictive Trade
Practices Act 1971 or of that Act as amended and retained immediately before
the commencing date by the Commissioner of Trade Practices under section 167
of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971-1973; and

  (d)  any copy of, or extract from, a document made or taken under section
167 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 or of that Act as amended.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 149.
Secrecy in relation to documents furnished under previous law.

  149. (1) Subject to sub-section (3), a member of the Commission or a member
of the staff assisting the Commission shall not, either directly or
indirectly, except in the performance of a duty under or in connexion with
this Act-

  (a)  make a record of, or divulge or communicate to any person, any

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information concerning the affairs of any other person acquired from-

      (i)  a document, copy or extract referred to in section 148; or

     (ii)  a document acquired by any person by reason of any office or
employment under or for the purposes of the Trade Practices Act 1965, or that
Act as amended, or the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971, or that Act as
amended; or

  (b)  produce to any person such a document, copy or extract.

  Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.
  (2) A member of the Commission or a member of the staff assisting the
Commission shall not be required to produce in a court a document, copy or
extract referred to in sub-section (1), or to divulge or communicate to any
court any information concerning the affairs of any other person acquired by
him from such a document, copy or extract.
  (3) Nothing in sub-section (1) or (2) applies in relation to-

  (a)  the communication of information to, or the production of a document,
copy or extract to, the Attorney-General or an officer acting on behalf of,
and with the authority of, the Attorney-General; or

  (b)  the communication or production to a person of, or of information,
documents, copies or extracts concerning, particulars of an agreement to
which, according to those particulars, that person is or has been a party.
  (4) In this section-

  "court" includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require
the production of documents or the answering of questions;

  "produce" includes permit access to and "production" has a corresponding
meaning.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 150.
Certain notices continued.

  150. (1) A notice served or deemed to have been served by the Minister under
sub-section 108 (1) of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 or of that Act
as amended shall be deemed to have been served under sub-section 114 (1) of
this Act.
  (2) A person appointed or deemed to have been appointed under section 108 of
the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 or of that Act as amended as the
agent of a shipowner shall be deemed to have been appointed under section 114
of this Act.
  (3) An address for service of a shipowner notified or deemed to have been
notified under section 108 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 or of
that Act as amended shall be deemed to have been notified under section 114 of
this Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 151.
Particulars of agreements continued.

  151. It is not necessary for particulars in respect of an agreement
furnished under section 90G of the Trade Practices Act 1965-1966 or of that
Act as amended or under section 111 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act
1971 or of that Act as amended to be furnished as required by section 117 of
this Act and this Act applies to and in relation to particulars so furnished,
and to and in relation to the agreement in respect of which they were so
furnished, as if the particulars had been furnished under section 117 of this
Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 152.
Repository of documents continued.

  152. The repository of documents kept under sub-section 113 (1) of the
Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971-1973 shall continue as the repository of
documents referred to in sub-section 119 (1) of this Act, and documents filed
or deemed to have been filed in the first-mentioned repository shall be deemed
to have been filed in the second-mentioned repository.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 153.
Extension of section 121.

  153. The application of section 121 of this Act extends to information and
documents referred to in section 90L of the Trade Practices Act 1965-1971 or
section 115 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971-1973.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 154.
Undertakings continued.

  154. (1) A notice served or deemed to have been served by the Minister under
section 116 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 or of that Act as
amended shall be deemed to have been served under section 122 of this Act.
  (2) An undertaking given or deemed to have been given as requested in a
notice referred to in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been given as
requested in a notice under section 122 of this Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART XII
                            PART XII-MISCELLANEOUS


TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 155.

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Power of Commission to obtain information, documents and evidence.

  155. (1) Where the Commission, the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman has
reason to believe that a person is capable of furnishing information,
producing documents or giving evidence relating to a matter that constitutes,
or may constitute, a contravention of this Act, a member of the Commission
may, by notice in writing served on that person, require that person-

  (a)  to furnish to the Commission, by writing signed by that person or, in
the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate,
within the time and in the manner specified in the notice, any such
information;

  (b)  to produce to the Commission, or to a person specified in the notice
acting on its behalf, in accordance with the notice, any such documents; or

  (c)  to appear before the Commission at a time and place specified in the
notice to give any such evidence, either orally or in writing, and produce any
such documents.
  (2) Where the Commission, the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman has reason to
believe that a person has engaged or is engaging in conduct that constitutes,
or may constitute, a contravention of this Act, a member of the Commission
may, for the purpose of ascertaining by the examination of documents in the
possession or control of the person whether the person has engaged or is
engaging in that conduct, authorize, by writing signed by the member, a member
of the staff assisting the Commission (in this section referred to as an
"authorized officer") to enter any premises, and to inspect any documents in
the possession or under the control of the person and make copies of, or take
extracts from, those documents.
  (3) The Commission may require the evidence referred to in paragraph (1) (c)
to be given on oath or affirmation and for that purpose any member of the
Commission may administer an oath or affirmation.
  (4) Where-

  (a)  particulars of an agreement were furnished to the Commissioner of Trade
Practices under section 42 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 or of
that Act as amended; or

  (b)  particulars of an agreement were furnished to the Commissioner of Trade
Practices under section 42 of the Trade Practices Act 1965 or of that Act as
amended, being particulars that would have been required to be furnished under
section 42 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 if that Act had been in
force when they were furnished,
and it appears to a member of the Commission that the agreement would, if
still in force-

  (c)  constitute a contract, arrangement or understanding to which section 45
of this Act applies; or

  (d)  provide for the engaging in conduct that is prohibited by this Act,
the member of the Commission may, by notice in writing served on a person who
appeared from those particulars to be a party to the agreement, require that
person to inform the Commission, by writing signed by that person or, in the
case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate, within
the time and in the manner specified in the notice, whether any action was
taken by the parties to the agreement to terminate the agreement and, if so,
the nature and full particulars of that action.
  (5) A person shall not-

  (a)  refuse or fail to comply with a notice under this section to the extent
that the person is capable of complying with it;

  (b)  in purported compliance with such a notice, knowingly furnish
information or give evidence that is false or misleading; or

  (c)  obstruct or hinder an authorized officer acting in pursuance of
sub-section (2).

  Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.
  (6) The occupier or person in charge of any premises that an authorized
officer enters in pursuance of sub-section (2) shall provide the authorized
officer with all reasonable facilities and assistance for the effective
exercise of his powers under that sub-section.

  Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.
  (7) A person is not excused from furnishing information or producing or
permitting the inspection of a document in pursuance of this section on the
ground that the information or document may tend to incriminate the person,
but the answer by a person to any question asked in a notice under this
section or the furnishing by a person of any information in pursuance of such
a notice, or any document produced in pursuance of such a notice or made

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available to an authorized officer for inspection, is not admissible in
evidence against the person-

  (a)  in the case of a person not being a body corporate-in any criminal
proceedings other than proceedings under this section; or

  (b)  in the case of a body corporate-in any criminal proceedings other than
proceedings under this Act.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 156.
Inspection of documents by Commission.

  156. (1) A member of the Commission, or a person authorized by a member of
the Commission, may inspect a document produced in pursuance of a notice under
section 155 and may make copies of, or take extracts from, the document.
  (2) The Commission may, for the purposes of this Act, Commission.
Ward suffering retain for as long as is necessary for those purposes,
possession of a document produced in pursuance of a notice under section 155
but the person otherwise entitled to possession of the document is entitled to
be supplied, as soon as practicable, with a copy certified by a member of the
Commission under his hand to be a true copy and the certified copy shall be
received in all courts as evidence as if it were the original.
  (3) Until such a certified copy is supplied, the Commission shall, at such
times and places as it thinks appropriate, permit the person otherwise
entitled to possession of the document, or a person authorized by that person,
to inspect and make copies of or take extracts from the document.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 157.
Disclosure of documents by Commission.

  157. (1) Where a corporation makes an application to the Commission for an
authorization, the Commission gives a notice under section 91 (4) to a
corporation to which an authorization has been investigation or proceedings
have been instituted against a corporation under section 77, the Commission
shall, at the request of the corporation, furnish to the corporation-

  (a)  a copy of every document that has been furnished to, or obtained by,
the Commission in connexion with the matter to which the application, notice
or proceedings relates and tends to establish the case of the corporation;
and

  (b)  a copy of any other document in the possession of the Commission that
comes to the attention of the Commission in connexion with the matter to which
the application, notice or proceedings relates and tends to establish the case
of the corporation,
not being a document obtained from the corporation or prepared by an officer
or professional adviser of the Commission.
  (2) If the Commission does not comply with a request under sub-section (1),
the Court shall, subject to sub-section (3), upon application by the
corporation which made the request, make an order directing the Commission to
comply with the request.
  (3) The Court may refuse to make an order under sub-section (2) in respect
of a document or part of a document if the Court considers it inappropriate to
make the order by reason that the disclosure of the contents of the document
or part of the document would prejudice any person, or for any other reason.
  (4) Before the Court gives a decision on an application under sub-section
(2), the Court may require any documents to be produced to it for inspection.
  (5) An order under this section may be expressed to be subject to conditions
specified in the order.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 158.
Protection of members of Tribunal or Commission, barristers and witnesses.

  158. (1) A member of the Tribunal or a member of the Commission has, in the
performance of his duty as a member, the same protection and immunity as a
Justice of the High Court.
  (2)  A barrister, solicitor or other person appearing before the Tribunal or
the Commission on behalf of a person has the same protection and immunity as a
barrister has in appearing for a party in proceedings in the High Court.
  (3) Subject to this Act, a person summoned to attend or appearing before the
Tribunal or the Commission as a witness has the same protection, and is, in
addition to the penalties provided by this Act, subject to the same
liabilities, in any civil or criminal proceedings as a witness in proceedings
in the High Court.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 159.
Incriminating answers.

  159. (1) A person appearing before the Tribunal or the Commission to give
evidence or produce documents (including a person appearing before the
Commission under section 155) is not excused from answering a question, or
producing a document, on the ground that the answer to the question, or the
document, may tend to incriminate him.
  (2) Evidence given by a person before the Tribunal or the Commission is not
admissible against him in any criminal proceedings other than proceedings for
offences against this Part.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 160.
Failure of witness to attend.

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  160. A person served, as prescribed, with a summons to appear as a witness
before the Tribunal or the Commission shall not, without reasonable excuse-

  (a)  fail to attend as required by the summons; or

  (b)  fail to appear and report himself from day to day unless excused, or
released from further attendance, by a member of the Tribunal or a member of
the Commission, as the case may be.

  Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 161.
Refusal to be sworn or to answer questions.

  161. A person appearing as a witness before the Tribunal or the Commission
shall not, without reasonable excuse-

  (a)  refuse or fail to be sworn or to make an affirmation;

  (b)  refuse or fail to answer a question that he is required to answer by
the member presiding at the proceedings; or

  (c)  refuse or fail to produce a document that he was required to produce by
a summons under this Act served on him as prescribed.

  Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 162.
Contempt of Tribunal or Commission.

  162. A person shall not-

  (a)  insult or disturb a member of the Tribunal or a member of the
Commission in the exercise of his powers or functions as a member;

  (b)  interrupt the proceedings of the Tribunal or of the Commission;

  (c)  use insulting language towards a member of the Tribunal or a member of
the Commission;

  (d)  create a disturbance or take part in creating or continuing a
disturbance in or near a place where the Tribunal is sitting or the Commission
is holding a public hearing; or

  (e)  do any other act or thing that would, if the Tribunal or Commission
were a court of record, constitute a contempt of that court.

  Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 163.
Prosecutions.

  163. (1) Prosecutions for offences against this Act shall be brought only in
the Court.
  (2) Jurisdiction is conferred on the Court to hear and determine
prosecutions under this Act.
  (3) The jurisdiction of the Court in respect of an offence against a
provision of Division 3 or 4 of Part X shall be exercised by not less than 3
Judges.
  (4) Proceedings before the Court in accordance with this section-

  (a)  may be instituted by summons upon information; and

  (b)  shall not be instituted except with the consent in writing of the
Attorney-General or of a person authorized by the Attorney-General, by writing
under his hand, to give such consents.
  (5) A prosecution for an offence against section 118 may be commenced at any
time after the commission of the offence.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 164.
Proceedings by Commission to be in its official name.

  164. Where this Act provides that the Commission may make an application to,
or institute any other proceeding in, a court, the Commission may make that
application or institute that proceeding in the official name of the
Commission. 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 165.
Inspection of, furnishing of copies of, and evidence of, documents.

  165. (1) A person may, on application in accordance with the regulations and
on payment of the prescribed fee (if any)-

  (a)  inspect any document contained in the register kept under sub-section
89 (3) or 95 (1); and

  (b)  obtain a copy of such a document (including, where the person so
requests, a copy certified to be a true copy under the hand of a person
authorized by the Commission to certify such copies).
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(2), a person may, on application in accordance with the regulations and on
payment of the prescribed fee (if any)-

  (a)  inspect the document recording a determination of the Tribunal or any
document furnished to, or recorded in the records of, the Tribunal in
pursuance of this Act or the regulations; and

  (b)  obtain a copy of such a document (including, where the person so
requests, a copy certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar
or of a Deputy Registrar).
  (3) Unless the Tribunal in a particular case otherwise directs, sub-section
(2) does not apply in relation to a document furnished to the Tribunal if the
person by whom the document was furnished claims, as prescribed, that the
document contains matter of a confidential nature.
  (4) A copy of a determination of the Commission, certified to be a true copy
by a person authorized by the Commission to certify copies of determinations
of the Commission, shall be received in all courts as evidence of the
determination.
  (5) A document purporting to be a copy of a determination of the Commission
and to be certified to be a true copy in accordance with sub-section (4)
shall, unless the contrary is established, be deemed to be such a copy and to
be so certified.
  (6) A copy of a determination of, or undertaking given to, the Tribunal,
certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar or of a Deputy
Registrar, shall be received in all courts as evidence of the determination or
undertaking.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 166.
Certificates as to furnishing of particulars of agreements.

  166. (1) Where particulars of an agreement have been furnished to the
Commission for the purposes of paragraph 51 (2) (g), the Commission shall, on
application by a party to the agreement, cause to be furnished to the party a
certificate signed by a member of the Commission specifying the particulars so
furnished and the date on which the particulars were furnished.
  (2) A certificate referred to in sub-section (1) shall be received in all
courts as evidence that the particulars specified in the certificate were
furnished to the Commission on the date so specified.
  (3) A person is not entitled to inspect any particulars of an agreement that
have been furnished to the Commission for the purposes of paragraph 51 (2)
(g), but the Commission may make those particulars available to the
Attorney-General or to an officer acting on behalf of, and with the authority
of, the Attorney-General or to a court.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 167.
Judicial notice.

  167. (1) All courts shall take judicial notice of-

  (a)  the official signature of any person who holds or has held the office
of President, Deputy President, member of the Tribunal, Chairman, Deputy
Chairman, member of the Commission, Registrar or Deputy Registrar and of the
fact that that person holds or has held that office; and

  (b)  the official seal of the Tribunal or of the Commission,
if the signature or seal purports to be attached or appended to an official
document.
  (2) In this section, "court" includes a Federal Court or a court of a State
or Territory and all persons authorized by law or by consent of parties to
receive evidence.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 168.
Presumption that bodies corporate not related.

  168. In proceedings under this Act, whether in a court or before the
Tribunal or the Commission, it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is
established, that bodies corporate are not, or were not at a particular time,
related to each other.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 169.
Temporary exercise of jurisdiction by Australian Industrial Court.

  169. (1) Jurisdiction expressed to be conferred on the Superior Court of
Australia by this Act shall not be deemed to be so conferred before a court of
that name is authorized under another Act to exercise jurisdiction.
  (2) If, at the commencing date, jurisdiction under this Act cannot be
exercised by the Superior Court of Australia, then-

  (a)  until jurisdiction can be so exercised, any action, prosecution or
other proceeding under this Act may be instituted in the Australian Industrial
Court as if references in this Act to the proceedings Court of Australia were
references to the Australian Industrial Court;

  (b)  jurisdiction is conferred on the Australian Industrial Court to hear
and determine a proceeding so instituted in that Court and, except in the case
of a proceeding referred to in sub-section 137 (4), section 143 or sub-section
163 (3), that jurisdiction may be exercised by a single Judge; and

  (c)  this Act has effect in relation to a proceeding instituted in the
Australian Industrial Court in accordance with this section, or in relation to
a finding or order made in such a proceeding, as if references in this Act to
the Court were, except where the context otherwise requires, references to the
Australian Industrial Court.
  (3) The jurisdiction of the Australian Industrial Court by virtue of this
section is exclusive of the jurisdiction of other courts to the extent to
which the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of Australia under this Act is
expressed to be so exclusive.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 - Sect. 170.
Legal and financial assistance.

  170. (1) A person-
  (a) who has instituted, or proposes to institute, a proceeding before
  the Commissioner or the Tribunal, or a proceeding before the Court
  under Part VI;

  (b) who is entitled to participate, or has been permitted to
  intervene in a proceeding before the Commission or the Tribunal; or

  (c) against whom a proceeding before the Court has been instituted
  under Part VI,

  may apply to the Attorney-General for a grant of assistance under
  this section in respect of the proceeding.
  (2) Where an application is made by a person under sub-section(1) the
Attorney-General, or an officer of the Australian Public Service authorized in
writing by the Attorney-General, may, if he is satisfied that it would involve
hardship to that person to refuse the application and that, in all the
circumstances, it is reasonable that the application should be granted,
authorize the grant by Australia to the person, either unconditionally or
subject to such conditions as the Attorney-General or officer determines, such
legal or financial assistance in relation to the proceedings as the
Attorney-General or officer determines.
  (3) In this section-

  (a) a reference to a proceeding before the Commission is a reference
      to a proceeding in relation to an application for, or in relation
      to the revocation of, an authorization; and
  (b) a reference to a proceeding before the Tribunal is a reference
      by the Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 171.
Annual report by Commission.

  171. The Commission shall, within 60 days after each year ending on 30 June,
furnish to the Attorney-General, for presentation to the Parliament, a report
with respect to its operations in that year.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 172.
Regulations.

  172. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with
this Act, prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act
to be prescribed or are necessary or convinient to be prescribed for carrying
out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, prescribing-
  (a) matter in connexion with the procedure of the Tribunal and
      the Commission;
  (b) the fees and expenses of witnesses in proceedings before the
      Tribunal and the Commission; and
  (c) matters for and in relation to the costs, if any, that may be
      awarded by the Court in proceedings before the Court under
      this Act.
  (2) The regulations may provide that all or any of the provisions of this
Act shall not apply to or in relation to conduct engaged in by a specified
organization or body that performs functions in relation to the marketing of
primary products.
  (3) The regulations may provide that all or any of the provisions of this
Act are not to apply in respect of a prescribed contract or proposed contract,
contracts included in a prescribed class of contracts, or prescribed conduct,
being a contract, proposed contract or class of contracts made, or conduct
engaged in, in persuance of or for the purposes of a specified agreement,
arrangement or understanding between the Government of Australia and the
Government of a country outside Australia


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 1.  Act No. 51, 1974; assented to 24 August 1974.
TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - LONG TITLE

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART I PART I-PRELIMINARY

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 1. Short title.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 2. Commencement.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 4. Interpretation.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART II PART II-THE TRADE PRACTICES COMMISSION

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 7. Constitution of Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 13. Termination of appointment.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 15. Resignation.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 16. Arrangement of business.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 17. Disclosure of financial interests of members of Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 22. Hearing in private in certain circumstances.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 24. Representation at public hearings by Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 25. Delegation by Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 27. Staff of Commission.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART III PART III-THE TRADE PRACTICES TRIBUNAL

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 30. Constitution of Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 33. Remuneration of members of Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 37. Constitution of Tribunal for particular matters.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 38. Validity of determinations.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 39. Arrangement of business.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 40. Disclosure of financial interests of members of Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 42. Decision of questions.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 44. Back to Top Staff of Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART IV PART IV-RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 45. Contracts, arrangements or understandings in restraint of trade or commerce.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 48. Resale price maintenance.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 49. Price discrimination.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART V PART V-CONSUMER PROTECTION

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1 Division 1-Unfair Practices

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 52. Misleading or deceptive conduct.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 54. Offering gifts and prizes.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 55. Misleading conduct to which Industrial Property Convention applies.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 57. Referral selling.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 58. Accepting payment without intending to supply as ordered.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 59. Misleading statements about home-operated businesses.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 60. Coercion at place of residence.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 61. Pyramid selling.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2 Division 2-Conditions and Warranties in Consumer Transactions

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 66. Interpretation.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 68. Application of Division to contracts not to be excluded or modified.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 73. Liability for loss or damage from breach of certain contracts.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 74. Warranties in relation to the supply of services.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 3 Division 3-Miscellaneous

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 75. Saving of other laws and remedies.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART VI PART VI-ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 77. Civil action for recovery of pecuniary penalties.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 79. Offences against Part V.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 80. Injunctions.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 82. Actions for damages.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 84. Conduct by servants or agents of body corporate.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 87. Ancillary orders.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART VII PART VII-AUTHORIZATIONS AND CLEARANCES IN RESPECT OF RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1 Division 1-Authorizations

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 88. Power of Commission to grant authorizations.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2 Division 2-Clearances

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 92. Clearance of contracts, arrangements or understandings in restraint of trade or commerce.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART VIII PART VIII-RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 96. Acts constituting engaging in resale price maintenance.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 97. Recommended prices.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 98. Withholding the supply of goods.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 100. Evidentiary provisions.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART IX PART IX-REVIEW BY TRIBUNAL OF DETERMINATIONS OF COMMISSION

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1 Division 1-Applications for Review

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 101. Applications for review.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 102. Functions and powers of Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2 Division 2-Procedure and Evidence

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 103. Procedure generally.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 105. Power to take evidence on oath.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 108. Taking of evidence by single member.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 109. Participants in proceedings before Tribunal.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - PART X PART X-OVERSEAS CARGO SHIPPING

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 1 Division 1-Preliminary

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 111. Interpretation.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 113. Agreements to which Part applies.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - Division 2 Division 2-Filing of Conference Agreements

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 115. Clerk of Shipping Agreements.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT. 44.
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Staff of Tribunal.
