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Australian
Consumer Law update - Senate passes unfair contracts laws 17
March 2010 |
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The Senate today passed the Australian Consumer
Law Bill 2009 (Bill). The Bill contains the Unfair Contracts laws
with minor proposed amendments, which we have described in previous e’Alerts.
The amended Bill must now be returned to the House of Representatives for the
amendments to be ratified. It is not currently known if the House will have
time to consider the amendments before the end of the current sitting
tomorrow, Thursday 18 March. After the current sitting, Parliament does not
sit again until the Budget in May. It is therefore not possible to know yet
whether the new Unfair Contracts laws will commence on 1 July as the
Government had hoped, or whether the commencement will have to be further
delayed. The Government today also introduced its second
tranche of Australian Consumer Law changes to the Trade Practices Act to
parliament. We are currently reviewing that Bill and will prepare
an e'Alert summarising the proposals shortly. |
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Richard
Westmoreland |
Robert Gardini |
Peter van
Rompaey |
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(02) 9334 8717 |
(02) 9334 8619 |
(03) 8633 7506 |
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Steve Burns |
Simon Tolhurst |
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(02) 9334 8841 |
(07) 3002 6749 |
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