New Zealand Acts

COMMERCE ACT 1986 - SECT 6A

6A Special provisions relating to application of Act to the Crown in right of Australia and to Australian Crown corporations

1 The provisions referred to in subsection (2) apply to—

a) the Crown in right of the Commonwealth of Australia, each of the States of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, in so far as the Crown engages in trade; and

b) every body corporate that is an authority of the Commonwealth of Australia within the meaning of section 4 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia in so far as it engages in trade; and

c) every body corporate established for a purpose of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia by or under a law of that State in so far as it engages in trade; and

d) every body corporate in which a State of the Commonwealth of Australia or in which a body corporate referred to in paragraph (c) has a controlling interest in so far as it engages in trade.

2 For the purposes of subsection (1), the provisions are—

a) section 36A ; and

b) Part 5 , in so far as it relates to section 36A ; and

c) Schedule 1AA , in so far as it relates to section 36A ; and

d) Parts 6 and 7 , in so far as they relate to a contravention of, or confer powers that may be exercised in relation to,—

i) section 36A ; or

ii) Part 5 or Schedule 1AA (in so far as that Part or that schedule relates to section 36A ).

History: Section 6A: inserted, on 1 July 1990, by section 6 of the Commerce Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 41).   Section 6A(1): amended, on 5 April 2023, by section 6(1) of the Commerce Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 11).     Section 6A(1)(b): amended, on 15 August 2017, by section 32(2)(c) of the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 40).     Section 6A(2): inserted, on 5 April 2023, by section 6(2) of the Commerce Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 11).