Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSUMER AFFAIRS ACT 1971 - SECT 17

17 .         Power of Commissioner to publish warnings about unsatisfactory or dangerous goods and services etc.

        (1)         The Commissioner may publish (in any form) a statement identifying and giving warnings or information about any of the following —

            (a)         goods that are unsatisfactory or dangerous and persons who supply or are likely to supply those goods;

            (b)         services supplied in an unsatisfactory or dangerous manner and persons who supply or are likely to supply those services;

            (c)         unfair business practices and persons who engage or are likely to engage in those practices;

            (d)         any other matter which adversely affects or may adversely affect the interests of consumers in connection with the acquisition by them of goods or services.

        (2)         A statement under subsection (1) may identify particular goods, services, business practices and persons.

        (3)         The Commissioner is not to make or issue a statement under this section unless satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.

        [Section 17 inserted by No. 28 of 2006 s. 75.]