Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

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CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND FAIR TRADING ACT - SECT 37

Certain amounts recoverable as debt or damages

37. Certain amounts recoverable as debt or damages

(1) Where a supplier fails to carry out an undertaking, notified pursuant to a notice under section 33, to refund the price of goods to a person, that person may recover from the supplier as a debt due and payable the amount that should have been refunded.

(2) Where a supplier fails to carry out an undertaking, notified pursuant to a notice under section 33, to repair or replace any goods within a specified period, the supplier shall be deemed to have given instead an undertaking so notified to refund the price of the goods within that period.

(3) Where:

(a) a person fails to comply with any requirement of a notice under section 33, or supplies goods in contravention of section 35(b); and

(b) another person suffers loss or damage because of a defect in or dangerous characteristic of the goods, or by not having particular information as to a characteristic of the goods,

the person who suffered the loss or damage shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have suffered it because of the failure or contravention.



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