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CONSUMER TRANSACTIONS ACT 1972 - SECT 20

20—Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make such regulations as are contemplated by this Act, or as are necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may—

            (a)         prescribe any form for the purpose of this Act; and

            (b)         exempt, or provide for the exemption of—

                  (i)         persons of a specified class from the provisions, or specified provisions, of this Act; or

                  (ii)         transactions of a specified class from the provisions, or specified provisions, of this Act,

and impose, or provide for the imposition of, conditions in respect of any such exemption; and

            (c)         invest the Commissioner with power to intervene in disputes arising in transactions to which this Act applies with a view to obtaining early settlement of those disputes; and

            (d)         for the purpose of promoting simplicity and uniformity of expression in consumer contracts, prescribe terminology and expressions that may be used in such contracts and provide that in the absence of evidence of a contrary intention that terminology or those expressions will, when appearing in any such contract, bear an interpretation stipulated in the regulations; and

            (e)         prescribe penalties not exceeding $2 500 for a contravention of, or non-compliance with, a regulation.



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