This consultation process has now been completed.
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Exposure Draft Legislation
Key Documents
We are seeking your views on draft amendments to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
The Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2024: Product Safety Regulation will:
- make it easier to recognise overseas standards in Australian law
- ensure standards stay up-to-date with changes overseas
- require businesses to provide evidence of compliance when asked.
These changes will:
- make products safer and cheaper for consumers
- help businesses to buy and sell products from overseas
- make Australian standards more consistent with overseas standards
- reduce the cost and time taken for new products to be sold in Australia
- allow products to comply with the most recent safety standards used overseas
- make the law simpler and easier to understand.
Your feedback will help us decide whether to change the draft laws before they are finalised.
Related content
- Improving mandatory standards under the Australian Consumer Law – Decision Regulation Impact Statement
- Supporting business through improvements to mandatory standards regulation under the Australian Consumer Law
- Media release – Albanese Government streamlines product safety standards – 11 October 2024