Section 10.39 — Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

(1) Subject to subsection (2), if:

(a) application has been made for the provisional or final registration of a conference agreement (in this section called the original agreement), but the original agreement has not been finally registered; and

(b) another conference agreement that varies or otherwise affects the original agreement is or has been made or arrived at;

the Registrar shall not provisionally or finally register the original agreement unless application has been made for the provisional registration of the other conference agreement.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the conference agreement referred to in paragraph (1)(b) consists solely of freight rate charges.

Related sections

• s 10.36 — Examination of abstract
• s 10.37 — Decision on request for confidentiality
• s 10.38 — Application for registration to be returned where request for confidentiality refused etc.
• s 10.40 — Notification of happening of affecting events prior to final registration etc.
• s 10.41 — Parties to registered conference agreement to negotiate with certain designated shipper bodies etc.
• s 10.42 — Application to be made for registration of varying conference agreements

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