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.
Responding
You can submit responses to this consultation up until 25 October 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on this consultation.
While submissions may be lodged electronically or by post, electronic lodgement is preferred. For accessibility reasons, please submit responses sent via email in a Word or RTF format. An additional PDF version may also be submitted.
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How To Respond
Post
Address written submissions to:
Consumer Policy Unit
Market Conduct Division
Treasury
Langton Cres
Parkes ACT 2600
Enquiries
Email: consumerlaw@treasury.gov.au