10 years of the Australian Consumer Law

ACCC Chair, Rod Sims, has delivered a speech marking the 10th anniversary of the Competition and Consumer Act incorporating the Australian Consumer Law (effective 1 July 2011).

The Act was not new - it was renamed from the Trade Practices Act 1974 - but this re-naming coincided with the introduction of the new national Australian Consumer Law, which Sims describes as a ‘game changer that allowed the ACCC and State and Territory regulators to collaborate much more easily on consumer issues’.

View media release.

View speech (‘Reflections on the 10th anniversary of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010’).