Western Australia
Consumer Affairs Act 1971
Consumer Affairs Act Regulations
Reprint 1: The regulations as at 20 August 2004
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Endnotes, Compilation table, and Table of provisions that have not come into operation
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Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as
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Western Australia
Consumer Affairs Act 1971
Consumer Affairs Act Regulations
1.Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Consumer Affairs Act Regulations 1.
2.Definition
In these regulations unless the contrary intention appears —
“the Act” means the Consumer Affairs Act 1971.
3.Requirements may be made orally or by notice
(1)A requirement made by the Commissioner pursuant to section 19(1)(a) or (b) of the Act may be made orally or by notice in writing.
(2)In this regulation the expression “Commissioner” has the same meaning as it has in and for the purposes of sections 19, 20, 21 and 22 of the Act.
4.Service of notices
Where pursuant to the Act or these regulations a person is required by notice in writing to —
(a)give any information;
(b)answer any question; or
(c)produce any document,
that notice may be served on that person —
(d)by delivering the notice to him personally;
(e)by leaving the notice for him at his usual or last known place of abode, or at his usual or last known place of business or employment; or
(f)by posting the notice as a registered letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place of abode, or at his usual or last known place of business or employment.
5.Personating officers of Department etc.
(1)A person who —
(a)forges or counterfeits any warrant or document;
(b)makes use of any forged, counterfeited or false warrant or document;
(c)personates a person named in a document;
(d)falsely pretends to be —
[(i) deleted]
(ii)the Commissioner; or
(iii)an officer of the Bureau 2;
or
(e)falsely pretends to be acting pursuant to authority conferred by or under the Act,
commits an offence.
Penalty: $200.
(2)A reference in this regulation to a warrant or document shall be construed as a reference to a warrant or document of a kind required under section 19(2) of the Act.
Notes
1This reprint is a compilation as at 20 August 2004 of the Consumer Affairs Act Regulations and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.
Compilation table
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Citation
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Gazettal
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Commencement
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Consumer Protection Act Regulations 3
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15 Dec 1972 p. 4718
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15 Dec 1972
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Untitled regulations
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8 Feb 1974 p. 358
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8 Feb 1974
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Consumer Affairs Amendment Regulations 1981
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11 Dec 1981 p. 5071
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11 Dec 1981 (see r. 2 and Gazette 11 Dec 1981 p. 5053)
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Reprint 1: The Consumer Affairs Act Regulations as at 20 Aug 2004 (includes amendments listed above)
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2Under the Consumer Affairs Act 1971 s. 4(3), references, however expressed, in any other Act or in any regulation, notice, proclamation, or statutory instrument of any kind made, published or in force under that or any other Act to the Bureau are, unless the context requires otherwise, read and construed as references to the Department as defined by the Consumer Affairs Act 1971.
3Now known as the Consumer Affairs Act Regulations; citation changed (see note under r. 1).
By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Government Printer