New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 31

31 Order (other than interim order) prohibiting or restricting the supply of goods

(1) The Minister may make a conditional or unconditional order prohibiting or restricting the supply of specified goods or goods of a specified kind:

(a) after considering a report and any recommendation of the Products Safety Committee relating to the goods,

(b) after considering a report of an authority of the State relating to the goods and deciding to make the order without referring a question to the Products Safety Committee, or

(c) if a like prohibition or restriction is in force under another law of the State, a law of the Commonwealth or a law in force elsewhere in Australia because the goods are dangerous.

(1A) An order made under this section must be published in the Gazette.

(2) Sections 40 and 41 of the Interpretation Act 1987 apply to an order made under subsection (1) as if it were a statutory rule to which those sections apply.

Note: For orders under this section see the Historical notes at the end of this Act.