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Competition and Consumer Act 2010
Sch 2 s 191AGift cards to be redeemable for at least 3 years
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191A Gift cards to be redeemable for at least 3 years
(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person, in trade or commerce, supplies a gift card to a consumer; and
(b) the day the gift card ceases to be redeemable is earlier than 3 years after the day of that supply.
Penalty:
(a) if the person is a body corporate—$30,000; or
(b) if the person is not a body corporate—$6,000.
(2) Subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.