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FAIR TRADING ACT 2010 - SECT 19

FAIR TRADING ACT 2010 - SECT 19

19 .         Application of Australian Consumer Law text

        (1)         For the purposes of this section, the Australian Consumer Law text consists of —

            (a)         Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Commonwealth) as in force on 1 June 2021 and as amended by each provision that —

                  (i)         is in an amending law that has effect for the purposes of this section under section 19B; and

                  (ii)         has come into operation for the purposes of this section under section 19C;

                and

            (b)         the regulations made under section 139G of that Act, as those regulations are in force from time to time, subject to subsection (1A).

        (1A)         For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), a provision of an amending law does not amend regulations made under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Commonwealth) section 139G unless —

            (a)         the amending law has effect for the purposes of this section under section 19B; and

            (b)         the provision has come into operation for the purposes of this section under section 19C.

        (2)         The Australian Consumer Law text —

            (a)         applies as a law of this jurisdiction; and

            (b)         as so applying, may be referred to as the Australian Consumer Law (WA) ; and

            (c)         in so far as it constitutes Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Commonwealth), is part of this Act; and

            (d)         in so far as it constitutes regulations made under section 139G of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Commonwealth), is subsidiary legislation for the purposes of this Act.

        (3)         This section has effect subject to sections 21, 22, 23 and 116(3).

        [Section 19 amended: No. 11 of 2013 s. 5; No. 26 of 2019 s. 4; No. 34 of 2022 s. 5.]