Fair Trading (Code of Practice—Fitness Industry) Regulation 2003
sch-sec.8Soliciting through false or misleading advertisements or communications
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sch-sec.8 Soliciting through false or misleading advertisements or communications
A supplier at a fitness centre must not solicit clients through false or misleading advertisements or other communications the supplier knows are false or misleading. A supplier must not tell a client a reward or gift is free if the fitness services to which it relates is increased in price or decreased in quality because of the reward or gift. Without limiting subsection (1) , a supplier must not make deliberately misleading or false comparisons with a fitness service supplied by another supplier. A supplier at a fitness centre must take reasonable steps to ensure an employee of the supplier does not solicit clients through false or misleading advertisements or other communications the supplier knows are false or misleading. A supplier must take reasonable steps to ensure an employee does not tell a client a reward or gift is free if the fitness services to which it relates is increased in price or decreased in quality because of the reward or gift. Without limiting subsection (3) , a supplier must take reasonable steps to ensure an employee of the supplier does not make deliberately misleading or false comparisons with a fitness service supplied by another supplier. (sch-sec.8-ssec.1) A supplier at a fitness centre must not solicit clients through false or misleading advertisements or other communications the supplier knows are false or misleading. A supplier must not tell a client a reward or gift is free if the fitness services to which it relates is increased in price or decreased in quality because of the reward or gift. (sch-sec.8-ssec.2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a supplier must not make deliberately misleading or false comparisons with a fitness service supplied by another supplier. (sch-sec.8-ssec.3) A supplier at a fitness centre must take reasonable steps to ensure an employee of the supplier does not solicit clients through false or misleading advertisements or other communications the supplier knows are false or misleading. A supplier must take reasonable steps to ensure an employee does not tell a client a reward or gift is free if the fitness services to which it relates is increased in price or decreased in quality because of the reward or gift. (sch-sec.8-ssec.4) Without limiting subsection (3) , a supplier must take reasonable steps to ensure an employee of the supplier does not make deliberately misleading or false comparisons with a fitness service supplied by another supplier.