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

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT 63

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 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.