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CONSUMER CLAIMS TRIBUNALS (AMENDMENT)
BILL 1992*
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The object of this Bill is to amend the Consumer Claims Tribunals Act 1987:
(a) to extend the definition of "consumer" in the Act to permit companies limited
by guarantee to lodge claims;
(b) to provide that the definition of "goods" does not include interests in land;
(c) to provide for the creation of branches of the registry of consumer claims
tribunals;
(d) to extend the power of the registrar of consumer claims tribunals to delegate
registrar functions;
(e) to require a consumer claims tribunal to provide written reasons for certain
orders made by it in respect of a consumer claim and to require that those
reasons be kept as part of the official record of the claim;
(f) to allow a consumer claims tribunal to award costs in limited cases;
(g) to make it clear that an order of a consumer claims tribunal sitting as a building
disputes tribunal is (for enforcement and other purposes) to be treated in the
same way as an order of any other consumer claims tribunal;
(h) to clarify an existing provision that makes tribunal decisions final and not
subject to appeal;
(i) to alter the time from which interest starts to run on unpaid consumer claims
tribunal orders;
(j) to make a minor amendment by way of statute law revision;
(k) to enact consequential savings and transitional provisions.
* Amended in committee--see table at end of volume.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on a day or days to
be appointed by proclamation.
Clause 3 gives effect to Schedule 1.
Clause 4 provides that the explanatory notes appearing in the Bill do not form part
of the proposed Act.
Schedule 1 makes the amendments to the Consumer Claims Tribunals Act 1987
described above. Each amendment is (where necessary) explained in detail in the
explanatory note relating to the amendment concerned.