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Timbermate Products Pty Ltd (Timbermate) carries on business as a manufacturer, importer and distributor of hardware products and supplies including a moulded rubber tie down strap branded “Quickties”.
Between mid 2005 and September 2008 Timbermate supplied Quickties with a paper based warning label to a range of hardware and other retailers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the Mandatory Standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The Mandatory Standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Kyberguard Pty Ltd, trading as Soldsmart, is a company that operates an online sales website at www.soldsmart.com.au, advertising and selling a variety of products including ride-on car toys for children of varying ages.
Between 30 November 2007 and 11 June 2008 Soldsmart advertised for sale two types of ride on car toys for children under the age of 36 months, that had small moveable parts:
Item BC7608RD – Sliding Tractor/Truck
Item RC6410PK – Electric Hot Rod Race Car
These products were independently tested to ascertain whether they complied with the Australian Standard. Results identified that both products failed to comply with the Australian Standard, in that parts broke off during testing.
Soldsmart acknowledges that it failed to comply with the Australian Standard, contravening section 65C of the Trade Practices Act.
Soldsmart has undertaken to the ACCC that it will:
Recall the products and offer a refund to all customers who have purchased these products;
Establish and implement a Trade Practices Compliance Program
Maintain and continue to implement the Trade Practices Compliance Program
Ensure that all products sold by Soldsmart that are subject to a prescribed consumer product safety standard or information standard under the TPA comply with the relevant standard; and
Ensure that any test reports for products advertised for sale by Soldsmart are not more than 12 months old, and are supplied by an Australian NATA accredited testing agency or equivalent overseas agency.
JB Hi-Fi Group Pty Ltd (JB Hi-Fi) is a retailer that supplies a wide range of products, including mobile phones, televisions, DVD recorders, computers, iPod players, home theatre products, music, games, car sound, digital cameras, printers and accessories.
Since June 2007, JB Hi-Fi entered the mobile consumer electronic and telecommunications market and supplied mobile phones and accessories in all its 98 stores around Australia.
In June 2008, a customer purchased what was represented to her as being a new Nokia mobile phone for $80 from the JB Hi-Fi store in Kotara Westfield in NSW.
Stamford Hotels Pty Ltd (Stamford Hotels) is the owner and operator of the Stamford Grand North Ryde (the Hotel).
Mark Hawkins, Merin Hawkins and Medalist (Victoria) Pty Ltd carry on business in partnership (the Medalist partnership) as a wholesale supplier of hand tools to the retail hardware and nursery industries.
Between 18 July 2007 and 22 August 2008 the Medalist partnership supplied certain Medalist branded elastic luggage straps (the Medalist straps) to its retail customers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Brilliant Signs Pty Ltd carries on business as a hardware wholesaler which includes the wholesaling of elastic luggage straps.
On 31 August 2007 Brilliant Signs supplied certain SSA branded elastic luggage straps to one of its customers for retail sale to consumers.
This was the only occasion on which Brilliant Signs supplied the SSA branded elastic luggage straps.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Service Station Supplies (Aust) Pty Ltd (SSSA) carries on business as a wholesaler of car care and convenience products to retail service stations and convenience store operators.
Between about June 2004 and July 2008 SSSA supplied certain SSA and MGR branded elastic luggage straps (the SSA and MGR straps) to its service station and convenience store operator customers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Mitre 10 Australia Limited (Mitre 10) is a wholesaler of hardware products which includes elastic luggage straps.
Between June 2007 and August 2008 Mitre 10 imported and distributed elastic luggage straps packaged under its private label brand ‘Warrior Bungee Cord’. Each package of the Warrior Bungee Cord included 14 elastic luggage straps in a variety of sizes and colours.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Bunnings Group Limited is a major retailer of home improvement products in Australia. One of the products sold by Bunnings is a rubber luggage strap known as Quickties Tie Down Strap (Quickties).
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
The TPA includes such a standard for elastic luggage straps.
An elastic luggage strap is defined in the relevant standard as including an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity that is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The ACCC is of the view Quickties are an elastic luggage strap.
The relevant standard requires elastic luggage straps to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
On 12 February 2009, the ACCC accepted the undertaking of Mr Mark Rafferty.
Under the undertaking, Mr Rafferty agrees that he will not deploy in favour of Toll Express, Toll or its related bodies corporate any confidential information obtained by Mr Rafferty during the course of his employment with Pacific National Limited.
The undertaking relates to the ACCC’s approval of Toll’s employment of Mr Rafferty, pursuant to clause 2.9(f) of the undertaking given by Toll to the ACCC on 11 March 2006, as varied on 18 April 2007.
Toll’s undertaking dated 11 March 2006 and the variation to that undertaking which was accepted by the ACCC on 18 April 2007, being the fifth variation to that undertaking, can be viewed on the ACCC’s website.
On 12 February 2009, the ACCC accepted the undertaking of Toll Holdings Limited ('Toll').
Under the undertaking, Toll agrees that Mr Mark Rafferty will be employed by Toll Express as a WA Mining Business Development Manager, and will not, during the term of the Toll undertakings (originally accepted on 11 March 2006), be transferred or promoted to any other position within Toll Express, Toll or its Related Bodies Corporate without the ACCC's prior written approval.
The undertaking further prohibits Toll from using confidential information that may be deployed by Mr Rafferty in his role with Toll Express.
The undertaking relates to the ACCC's approval of Toll's employment of Mr Rafferty, pursuant to clause 2.9(f) of the undertaking given by Toll to the ACCC on 11 March 2006, as varied on 18 April 2007.
Toll’s undertaking dated 11 March 2006 and the variation to that undertaking which was accepted by the ACCC on 18 April 2007, being the fifth variation to that undertaking, can be viewed on the ACCC’s website.
On 10 day of February 2009 the ACCC accepted a request to vary the undertaking provided by Video Ezy Australasia Pty Ltd on 27 May 2008.
The variation relates to the delivery of training provided under the compliance program.
The ACCC has accepted Court enforceable undertakings from ACP Magazines Ltd (ACP) concerning the publication of advertisements for mobile premium content services in its magazines which target a young readership, being Dolly, Cosmopolitan and Cleo magazines.
Mobile premium content services are services that supply content and provide for payment of services via mobile telephone accounts at a price higher than a typical telephone call or SMS.
The ACCC has accepted Court enforceable undertakings from Pacific Magazines Pty Ltd (Pacific) concerning the publication of advertisements for mobile premium content services in TV Hits and Girlfriend magazines, which target a young readership.
Between September and December 2008, TPG Internet Pty Ltd published advertisements for its Unlimited Cap Saver mobile telephone plan (Unlimited Cap Saver Plan) on television, in newspapers, and on billboards on buses, trams, major roads and train stations across Australia (TPG Advertisements).
The ACCC contends that TPG has engaged in false, misleading and deceptive conduct because the TPG Advertisements contained representations to the effect that the Unlimited Cap Saver Plan provides unlimited calls and text for $59.99 with no additional charge and is available for a purchase price of only $59.99 per month, when that is not the case.
TPG admits the TPG Advertisements contained representations about the price and the unlimited nature of the Unlimited Cap Saver Plan that may amount to contraventions of section 52, 53(aa), 53(c) and 53(e) of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
TPG has provided court enforceable undertakings to the ACCC that it will:
not, for a period of 3 years, publish an advertisement for a mobile telephone plan which states that for a specified price there will be unlimited calls and text when certain calls and text are excluded or additional charges will apply for some calls and text without including an appropriately prominent disclaimer to the effect that exceptions, terms and conditions apply;
not contravene sections 52, 53(aa), 53(c) and 53(e) for a period of 3 years;
publish a corrective notice on its website; and
implement a Trade Practices Compliance Program.
Oceanic Diving Australia Pty Ltd (Oceanic), a wholesaler of scuba diving related equipment and accessories, has admitted that it engaged in conduct in contravention of section 48 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (the Act) in August 2008 by sending an email to dealers which advised them that they could not advertise in the print media or on the internet certain Oceanic goods below specified prices.
Oceanic has provided undertakings pursuant to section 87B of the Act that it will:
not induce or attempt to induce a reseller from advertising or selling Oceanic products at a price less than a price specified by Oceanic;
implement a trade practices compliance program for a period of 3 years; and
arrange for an article to be published in a scuba diving publication informing readers about its contravention and the prohibition of resale price maintenance.
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