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FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 61

61 .         Offence to provide materially inaccurate information in respect of goods, or services or interests in land

        (1)         A person shall not, in trade or commerce, provide any materially inaccurate information in respect of any goods, services, or interest in land.

        (2)         Where a product information standard has been prescribed assigning a meaning to information of a specified kind in respect of any specified goods or services or class of goods or services, any such information shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be materially inaccurate if it is in that respect inaccurate to any degree in terms of the meaning so assigned.

        (3)         Alteration or variation by whatever means of any information already provided constitutes the provision of materially inaccurate information if the information as a result of the alteration or variation is materially inaccurate.

        (4)         Where an act or omission by a person is an offence against this section and is also an offence against section 12 and a person is convicted of the offence, the person is not liable to be punished twice in respect of the same act or omission.



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