Trade Practices Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978 (Cth)

TRADE PRACTICES AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1978

No. 207 of 1978

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, &c. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Trade Practices Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978. (2) The Trade Practices Act 1974 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Additional operation of Act 3. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) by inserting "sub-section 45d(1a) or in" before "section 55" in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2); and (b) by inserting "(other than sub-section (1a))" after "45d" in paragraph (b) of sub-section (2).

Boycotts 4. Section 45d of the Principal Act is amended— (a) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-sections: "(1a) Subject to this section, a person shall not, in concert with another person, engage in conduct for the purpose, and having or likely to have the effect, of preventing or substantially hindering a third person (not being an employer of the first-mentioned person) from engaging in trade or commerce— (a) between Australia and places outside Australia; (b) among the States; or (c) within a Territory, between a State and a Territory or between two Territories.

"(1b) In a proceeding under this Act in relation to a contravention of sub-section (1a), it is a defence if the defendant proves—

(a) that the conduct concerned is the subject of an authorization in force under section 88; (b) that a notice in respect of the conduct has been duly given to the Commission under sub-section 93(1) and the Commission has not given a notice in respect of the conduct under sub-section 93(3); or (c) that the dominant purpose for which the defendant engaged in the conduct concerned was to preserve or further a business carried on by him. "(1c) The application of sub-section (1a) in relation to a person in respect of his engaging in conduct in concert with another person is not affected by reason that the other person proves any of the matters mentioned in sub-section (1b) in respect of that conduct."; and (b) by omitting from sub-sections (2), (3), (4) and (6) "sub-section (1)" and substituting "sub-section (1) or (1a)".