Section 51ACAACompetition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

Meaning of industry code

(1) For the purposes of this Part, an industry code is (subject to subsection (2)) a code that regulates the conduct of participants in an industry towards other participants in the industry or towards consumers in the industry.

(2) If this Act provides that an industry code prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this Part may include a provision of a certain kind, then:

(a) the regulations may prescribe, for the purposes of this Part, an industry code that includes a provision of that kind, whether or not the provision regulates conduct of a kind mentioned in subsection (1); and

(b) if the regulations do prescribe, for the purposes of this Part, an industry code that includes a provision of that kind, the inclusion of the provision does not prevent the code from being an industry code for the purposes of this Part.

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