66Annual survey

66 Annual survey

(1) The Code Supervisor must conduct a survey of suppliers and large grocery businesses for each financial year for the purpose of: (a) identifying if any suppliers feared retribution from large grocery businesses during the financial year; and (b) identifying suppliers’ experiences during the financial year with agreeing to grocery supply agreements containing allowable contrary provisions of a kind mentioned in section 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27 or 28; and (c) identifying emerging and systemic issues in the grocery supply chain relating to the operation of this Code during the financial year; and (d) any other matter identified by the Code Supervisor that relates to the operation of this Code during the financial year. (2) Each large grocery business must: (a) distribute the survey to their suppliers; and (b) inform each supplier that: (i) their response to the survey will not be given to the large grocery business; and (ii) the results of the survey will not be reasonably capable of being used to identify them.

Civil penalty:

(a) for a contravention by a body corporate—3,200 penalty units; or
(b) for a contravention by a person who is not a body corporate—640 penalty units.