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Motor Dealers and Chattel Auctioneers Act 2014
sec.231Public warning statements
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### sec.231 Public warning statements
The Minister or chief executive may make or issue a public statement identifying and giving warnings or information about any of the following—
contraventions of a prescribed conduct provision that have resulted in disciplinary action and persons who commit the contraventions;
business practices regulated under this Act that are unfair and persons who engage in the unfair practices;
the commission of offences against this Act and persons who commit the offences.
The statement may identify particular contraventions, business practices, offences and persons.
The Minister or chief executive must not make or issue a statement under this section unless satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.
(sec.231-ssec.1) The Minister or chief executive may make or issue a public statement identifying and giving warnings or information about any of the following— contraventions of a prescribed conduct provision that have resulted in disciplinary action and persons who commit the contraventions; business practices regulated under this Act that are unfair and persons who engage in the unfair practices; the commission of offences against this Act and persons who commit the offences.
(sec.231-ssec.2) The statement may identify particular contraventions, business practices, offences and persons.
(sec.231-ssec.3) The Minister or chief executive must not make or issue a statement under this section unless satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.
- (a) contraventions of a prescribed conduct provision that have resulted in disciplinary action and persons who commit the contraventions;
- (b) business practices regulated under this Act that are unfair and persons who engage in the unfair practices;
- (c) the commission of offences against this Act and persons who commit the offences.