Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSUMER AFFAIRS ACT 1971 - SECT 25A

25A .         Advertisements not to imply approval by Committee, Department or other authority

        (1)         A person who publishes or causes to be published any statement — 

            (a)         which is intended or is apparently intended to promote the sale, hiring or leasing of goods, or the sale of an estate or interest in any land or building, or the letting or leasing of any land or building or part of a building, or the use of a service rendered for fee or reward; and

            (b)         which states, either expressly or by implication, that any consumer affairs authority has approved, or has refrained from disapproving, the statement or any material particular in the statement or any claim made in the statement or any goods or services depicted or described, whether by a trade name or otherwise, in the statement,

                commits an offence unless, prior to the publication of the statement, the Minister has consented in writing to its publication.

        Penalty: $500.

        (2)         In this section — 

        consumer affairs authority means — 

            (a)         the Committee, the Department or the Commissioner; or

            (b)         any person, or statutory body or authority, appointed or constituted under any law of the Commonwealth or of any State or Territory of the Commonwealth and having powers, functions and duties under the laws of the Commonwealth or that State or Territory similar to those of the Committee, the Department or the Commissioner under the laws of this State,

        and includes — 

            (c)         the Chairman of the Committee or any other member of the Committee;

            (d)         any officer of the Department;

            (e)         any officer or employee of a statutory body or authority referred to in paragraph (b) of this definition;

        published includes — 

            (a)         inserted in any newspaper or other publication published in Western Australia;

            (b)         publicly exhibited — 

                  (i)         in, on, over or under any building, vehicle, or place (whether a public place or private place, and whether on land or water); or

                  (ii)         in the air,

                in view of persons being or passing in or on any public place;

            (c)         contained in any document gratuitously sent or delivered to any person or thrown or left upon premises in the occupation of any person;

            (d)         made verbally to any person; or

            (e)         publicly announced by means of transmission of light or sound,

        and publishes has a corresponding meaning.

        [Section 25A inserted by No. 21 of 1975 s. 17; amended by No. 90 of 1978 s. 8; No. 110 of 1981 s. 11; No. 1 of 1985 s. 16.]