Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –
"advertising" includes any activity calculated or intended to promote or increase the sale or use of any goods or services;
"Agency" has the meaning assigned to that expression in the State Service Act 2000;
"authorized officer" means the Director or a person declared to be or appointed as an authorized officer under this Act;
"chairperson" means the chairperson of the Committee;
"Committee" means the Tasmanian Consumer Advisory Committee established under this Act;
"consumer" includes any person using, or taking advantage of, any service;
"Consumer Affairs Officer" means an employee employed in the Office of Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading;
"Director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading appointed under this Act;
"documents" includes books, papers, accounts, any written records, any computer discs or tapes or other means of storage on a computer, and any computer printouts;
"functions" includes duties;
"goods" includes anything that is the subject of trade, manufacture, or merchandise and anything growing on, or attached to, land that is severable from the land;
"Office" means the Office of Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading;
"services" means the conferring of rights or benefits that are provided by a person in the carrying on of an industrial, commercial, business, profit-making, or remunerative undertaking (including a professional practice), and includes the provision for reward of lodging or accommodation;
"supply" –(a) in relation to goods, includes supply, and resupply, by way of gift, sale, exchange, lease, hire, or hire-purchase; and
(b) in relation to services, includes provision, granting, hiring, and conferring.
(2) A reference to any matter or matters affecting the interests of consumers shall be construed as including a reference to any matter or matters affecting the interests of a particular consumer or a particular class of consumers.