Trade Practices Amendment Act 1976 (Cth)

TRADE PRACTICES AMENDMENT ACT 1976

No. 88 of 1976

An Act relating to Trade Practices.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Trade Practices Amendment Act 1976.

(2) The Trade Practices Act 1974-1975 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Trade Practices Act 1974-1976.

Commencement. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent but the amendments made by paragraph 3(a) and by sections 8 and 17 shall be deemed to have had effect at all times on and from 1 October 1974.

Interpretation. 3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "Court" and substituting the following definition:—

"'Court' means the Australian Industrial Court; (b) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "person"; and

(c) by adding at the end of the section the following sub-section:—

"(5) The express references in this Act to corporations and bodies corporate shall not be taken to imply that references to persons do not also include references to persons who are not natural persons.".

Additional operation of Act. 4. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) the words "section 46, Part V (other than section 55)" and substituting the words "sections 46, 60 and 61, sub-sections 64(3) and (4)"; and (b) by omitting from paragraph (h) of sub-section (2) the word and figures "or 89(7)".

Representation at public hearings by Commission. 5. Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraphs: —