New Zealand Acts

COMMERCE ACT 1986 - SECT 6B

6B Crown and Crown corporations not immune from jurisdiction in relation to certain provisions of Competition and Consumer Act 2010

Neither the Crown nor a body corporate that is an instrument of the Crown in respect of the Government of New Zealand is immune, and neither the Crown nor such a body corporate may claim immunity, from the jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand and Australia in relation to a contravention of section 46A of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and in relation to Parts VI and XII of that Act in so far as they relate to a contravention of that section.

History: Section 6B: inserted, on 1 July 1990, by section 6 of the Commerce Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 41).   Section 6B heading: amended, on 15 August 2017, by section 32(2)(c) of the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 40).     Section 6B: amended, on 15 August 2017, by section 32(2)(c) of the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 40).