Fair Markets And Confident Consumers - The New Australian Consumer Law.

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Fair Markets And Confident Consumers - The New Australian Consumer Law.

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Businesses face expanded regulation of standard form consumer contracts and product safety, and a wider range of available remedies for consumer law breaches of the Trade Practices Act.

The Government has also called for comment on whether various other forms of undesirable business conduct should be more tightly regulated.

National consumer law reforms are now one step closer to reality with the Commonwealth Government's release, on 17 February 2009, of an information and consultation paper on the reforms, "An Australian Consumer Law, Fair markets- Confident consumers".

The reforms are wide-rangi...

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