Annotated competition and consumer legislation / Ray Steinwall.

Annotated competition and consumer legislation / Ray Steinwall.

LexisNexis annotated acts : Annotated competition and consumer legislation

2024 edition

9780409359541 paperback

Chatswood, N.S.W. : LexisNexis Australia, 2024.

©2024

English

xcv, 2517 pages ; 24 cm

N266.K1 STE 2024

Fully revised and updated, the 2024 edition of the Annotated Competition and Consumer Legislation provides an essential guide to Australia's national competition and consumer law legislation and regulations accompanied by authoritative annotations, relevant case law and alerts to important reviews and legislative reforms. This edition incorporates all recent changes in the legislation to 12 January 2024 including amendments made by the Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Act 2022, which increased penalties for breaches of the competition and consumer law and amended the unfair contract regime in the Australian Consumer Law. Features: Incorporating the following features to assist you in your day-to day practice: Authored annotations explaining the competition and consumer legislation including commentary on key cases from a range of jurisdictions including the High Court, Federal Court and Australian Competition Tribunal; Detailed background on each part of the Act covering the laws' development, its review and reform proposals; References to decisions of the National Competition Council and decisions impacting Australia's energy law; Extensive ancillary legislation, intergovernmental agreements, Codes, guidelines, and practice notes; Forms are reproduced from Schedule one of the Competition and Consumer Regulations 2010; A comparative table of cross-references mapping pre-reform provisions to those in the Competition and Consumer Act and state laws; Shaded legislation and detailed tabs with extensive indexing to enhance the ease of use and navigability. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.