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FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 75

75 .         Other injunctions

        (1)         The Supreme Court or the District Court, on the application of the Commissioner, where the Court is satisfied that a person has engaged, or is proposing to engage, in conduct that constitutes, or would constitute, or is involve in, a contravention of — 

            (a)         a provision of a banning order;

            (b)         a provision of any other legislation administered by the Minister or of an order made under any such legislation, being a provision relevant to the alleged contravention;

            (c)         a provision of a code of practice in force under Part IV in respect of which the Commissioner has requested the person to give an undertaking under section 44 or has applied to the State Administrative Tribunal under section 46; or

            (d)         a provision of an order of the State Administrative Tribunal under section 46,

                may grant an injunction in such terms as the Court determines to be appropriate.

        (2)         If the Court is satisfied, on the application of the Minister or the Commissioner, that a person has engaged in conduct constituting, or is involved in, a contravention of a provision of this Act, other than section 11 or 11A, the Court may grant an injunction requiring that person to take specified action to remedy any adverse consequence of that conduct, including — 

            (a)         an order requiring that person or a person involved in the contravention to disclose to the public, to a particular person or to persons included in a particular class of persons, in such manner as is specified in the order, such information, or information of such a kind, as is so specified, being information that is in the possession of the person to whom the order is directed or to which that last-mentioned person has access; or

            (b)         an order requiring the person or a person involved in the contravention to publish, at the person’s own expense, in a manner and at times specified in the order, advertisements the terms of which are specified in, or are to be determined in accordance with, the order.

        [Section 75 amended by No. 55 of 2004 s. 339; No. 28 of 2006 s. 99; No. 47 of 2006 s. 29.]



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