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If you make, distribute, import, sell (new or secondhand) or hire household cots then this information is important to you. On 30 June 1998 a new mandatory product safety standard covering childre...

The Trade Practices Act 1974 requires that businesses provide consumers with accurate information about goods and services. Manufacturers and/or retailers that make false or misleading representati...

Standard form consumer contracts that are entered into from 1 July 2010, and terms of existing contracts that are renewed or varied from that date, will be subject to the unfair contract terms law....

Component pricing is where a business represents the cost of a good or service to consumers in, or as the sum of, multiple component parts. This is a practice commonly used by restaurants, cafés a...

The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) commenced on 1 January 2011. Under the ACL, consumers will have the same protections and expectations about business conduct no matter where they are in Australia....

Accurate price representations are not just good advertising practice. The Competition and Consumer Act 2010 requires that your advertising correctly represents the goods you are offering for sale,...

Under the Trade Practices Act 1974 you are required to ensure that your advertising correctly represents the goods or services you are offering for sale—including its price and any other key feat...

This guide provides an overview of the rules for fair sales practices. Under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), which is contained in a schedule to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (formerly ...

The ACL provides all consumers with certain guarantees when they purchase goods and services. These are known as the consumer guarantees. Consumer guarantees automatically apply regardless of any ...

In April 2010, a range of consumer protection and fair trading reforms came into effect. These reforms form part of the move towards a single national law, the Australian Consumer Law.