Competition and Consumer Act 2010
Sch 2 s 102Prescribed requirements for warranties against defects
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102 Prescribed requirements for warranties against defects
(1) The regulations may prescribe requirements relating to the form and content of warranties against defects.
(2) A person must not, in connection with the supply, in trade or commerce, of goods or services to a consumer:
(a) give to the consumer a document that evidences a warranty against defects that does not comply with the requirements prescribed for the purposes of subsection (1); or
(b) represent directly to the consumer that the goods or services are goods or services to which such a warranty against defects relates.
Note: A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention of this subsection.
(3) A warranty against defects is a representation communicated to a consumer in connection with the supply of goods or services, at or about the time of supply, to the effect that a person will (unconditionally or on specified conditions):
(a) repair or replace the goods or part of them; or
(b) provide again or rectify the services or part of them; or
(c) wholly or partly recompense the consumer;
if the goods or services or part of them are defective, and includes any document by which such a representation is evidenced.