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Guidelines for excluding information from the public register for authorisation and notification processes
Under the Trade Practices Act 1974 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission must maintain public registers of information provided in the authorisation, merger clearance and notification processes. This publication provides guidelines for requesting the exclusion of information from the public registers.
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Authorisations and notifications—a summary
This publications is designed to help businesses and legal practitioners prepare applications for authorisation and notifications, and for interested parties to better understand and participate in both processes.
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Small business and the Trade Practices Act
This guide is designed to assist the owners and managers of small businesses, and their advisers, to understand and use the Trade Practices Act as part of good business management.
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Advertising and selling
This publication is a guide to the consumer protection provisions of Part V and VC of the Trade Practices Act. These provisions contain simple rules to ensure that businesses trade fairly with consumers. The guide also contains a brief explanation of Part IVA provisions—that is, unconscionable conduct.
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Fair and square: a guide to the Trade Practices Act for the real estate industry
This guide is designed to help small businesses associated with real estate to be fully informed about their rights and responsibilities under the Trade Practices Act. Produced in consultation with the real estate industry, Fair and square is written in an easily understood style and uses relevant examples to illustrate familiar market situations under which the Trade Practices Act applies to real estate agents.
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Rural industry and the Trade Practices Act: a guide for rural producers
This guideline looks at the likely effects of the Trade Practices Act (and in particular the competitive conduct rules in Part IV) on rural producers in their business dealings with competitors, suppliers and customers.
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Guide to exclusive dealing notifications
This guide has been produced to help people better understand the ACCC's approach when it considers exclusive dealing notifications. The guide provides information to businesses and legal advisers on how to lodge an exclusive dealing notification. It explains how the process works, what information the ACCC needs to assess a notification and how the ACCC assesses exclusive dealing notifications.
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Guide to collective bargaining notifications
This guide aims to provide information to small businesses, their advisers and associations on how to lodge a collective bargaining notification. It endeavours to explain how the process works, what information the ACCC will need to assess a notification and how the ACCCC will assess collective bargaining notifications.
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Formal merger review process guidelines 2007
This publication outlines the ACCC's proposed approach to assessing applications for formal clearance and the requirements on applicants for merger clearances. It also outline the legislative requirements on parties wishing to apply to the Tribunal for authorisation of proposed mergers and acquisitions.
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Guidelines relating to deferral of arbitrations and backdating of determinations under Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act 1974
The purpose of these guidelines is to explain how the ACCC might apply the provisions on deferral of arbitrations and backdating of final determinations when making decisions under Part IIIA.
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Know how to complain: stand up for your consumer rights
The ACCC has issued a guide advising consumers of their rights and protections under the Trade Practices Act and how they can enforce those rights.
Know how to complain also provides information on the role of the ACCC and, in particular, what the ACCC can and cannot do for consumers who feel a particular business has not met its fair trading obligations. The publication also provides details of other agencies and dispute resolution schemes that can assist consumers.
Many traders and consumers are unsure of their rights when requesting a refund. The ACCC has produced wall and desk signs that stores can display to advise consumers about their refund policies.
ACCC report to the Australian Senate on anti-competitive and other practices by health funds and providers in relation to health insurance
This is the ACCC report to the Australian Senate on anticompetitive and other practices by health funds and providers in relation to private health funds 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006.
