Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 65

65 .         Prohibition on supply of goods not complying with product quality standards

        (1)         A person shall not, in trade or commerce, supply goods — 

            (a)         that are intended to be used, or are of a kind likely to be used, by a consumer; and

            (b)         in relation to which there is a product quality standard,

                unless the goods comply with the standard.

        (2)         If — 

            (a)         a person supplies goods in contravention of subsection (1); and

            (b)         another person suffers loss or damage because of a defect in, or a characteristic of, the goods but would not have suffered it if the goods had complied with the product quality standard,

                the person who suffers the loss or damage shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have suffered it by the supplying of the goods.