New Tax System Price Exploitation Code (Tasmania) Act 1999 (Tas)

New Tax System Price Exploitation Code (Tasmania) Act 1999

An Act to apply certain laws of the Commonwealth relating to the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code as laws of Tasmania, to make a consequential amendment to the Competition Policy Reform (Tasmania) Act 1996 and for other purposes [Royal Assent 7 December 1999]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code (Tasmania) Act 1999 .

2. Commencement (1) Part 1 commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. (2) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on a day to be proclaimed, being a day on or after the day on which the A New Tax System (Trade Practices Amendment) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth commences.

3. Interpretation (1) In this Act – application law means – (a) a law of a participating jurisdiction that applies the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code, either with or without modifications, as a law of the participating jurisdiction; or (b) any regulations or other legislative instrument made under a law described in paragraph (a) ; or (c) the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code, applying as a law of the participating jurisdiction, either with or without modifications; Commission means the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission established by section 6A of the Trade Practices Act, and includes a member of the Commission or a Division of the Commission performing functions of the Commission; instrument means any document whatever, including – (a) an Act or an instrument made under an Act; or (b) a law of this jurisdiction or an instrument made under such a law; or (c) an award or other industrial determination or order, or an industrial agreement; or (d) any other order (whether executive, judicial or otherwise); or (e) a notice, certificate or licence; or (f) an agreement; or (g) an application made, information or complaint laid, affidavit sworn, or warrant issued, for any purpose; or (h) an indictment, presentment, summons or writ; or (i) any other pleading in, or process issued in connection with, a legal or other proceeding; jurisdiction means a State; law, in relation to a Territory, means a law of, or in force in, that Territory; modifications includes additions, omissions and substitutions; month means a period commencing at the beginning of a day of one of the 12 months of the year and ending immediately before the beginning of the corresponding day of the next month or, if there is no such corresponding day, ending at the expiration of the next month; New Tax System Price Exploitation Code means (according to the context) – (a) the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code text; or (b) the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code text, applying as a law of a participating jurisdiction, either with or without modifications; New Tax System Price Exploitation Code text means the text described in section 4 ; officer, in relation to the Commonwealth, has the meaning given in Part XIAA of the Trade Practices Act; participating jurisdiction means a jurisdiction that applies the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code as a law of the jurisdiction, either with or without modifications; Schedule version of Part VB means the text that is set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to the Trade Practices Act; State includes a Territory; Territory means the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory of Australia; this jurisdiction means Tasmania; Trade Practices Act means the Trade Practices Act 1974 of the Commonwealth. (2) If an expression is defined in the Trade Practices Act and is also used in this Act, the expression as used in this Act has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning as in that Act. (3) In this Act, a reference to a Commonwealth Act includes a reference to – (a) that Commonwealth Act as amended and in force for the time being; and (b) an Act enacted in substitution for that Act.