Fair Trading Legislation Amendment (Reform) Act 2018
47DCompliance with information standard
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47D Compliance with information standard
47D Compliance with information standard
(1) A person who supplies goods or services that are intended to be used, or are of a kind likely to be used, by a consumer and in relation to which there is an information standard must comply with the standard in relation to the goods or services concerned.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(2) If—
(a) a person supplies goods or services in contravention of subsection (1), and
(b) another person suffers loss or damage by not having particular information relating to the goods or services but would not have suffered the loss or damage if the information standard had been complied with in relation to the goods or services,
the person who suffers the loss or damage is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have suffered it by the supply of the goods or services.