Treasury Laws Amendment (Fairer for Families and Farmers and Other Measures) Act 2024 (136 of 2024)

Schedule 2   Regulation of safety standards and information standards

Part 1   Main amendments

Competition and Consumer Act 2010

20   At the end of Part 3-4 of Schedule 2

Add:

137B Requirement to give information or documents

If:

(a) an information standard for goods or services of a particular kind is in force; and

(b) a person, in trade or commerce:

(i) has supplied, or offered for supply, goods or services of that kind; or

(ii) is supplying, or offering for supply, goods or services of that kind; or

(iii) intends to supply, or offer for supply, goods or services of that kind; and

(c) the regulator gives to the person a written request for information or documents to determine whether the person has complied, is complying, or will comply with the standard;

the person must, within the period specified in the request, give to the regulator the requested information or documents.

Note: A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention of this subsection.