Commencement Proclamation (2019-115) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Fair Trading Legislation Amendment (Reform) Act 2018 No 65

DAVID HURLEY, Governor

I, General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 (2) of the Fair Trading

Legislation Amendment (Reform) Act 2018, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 28 February

2019 as the day on which the following provisions of that Act commence:

(a) Schedule 1.1 [3] (other than to the extent that it inserts sections 47A and 47B into the Fair

Trading Act 1987), [4] and [6],

(b)	Schedule 1.2 [1] and [2] (but only to the extent that it inserts the matter relating to section 86AB (2) of the Fair Trading Act 1987),
(c)	Schedule 2.1 [4] and [11],
(d)	Schedule 2.9 [1]–[4] and [5] (but only to the extent that it inserts section 33A into the Motor

Dealers and Repairers Act 2013),

(e)	Schedule 4.4 [5] and [6],
(f)	Schedule 5.1 [2] and 5.2 [2],
(g)	Schedule 11.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 28th day of February 2019.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Commencement Proclamation [NSW]

Explanatory note

(a)	the Fair Trading Act 1987 and Fair Trading Regulation 2012 in relation to information standards for certain goods and services and the effect of non-disclosure agreements on the provision of information about complaints, and
(b)	the Architects Act 2003 to remove the minimum age requirement for registration and to enable applications for registration as an architect to be made electronically, and
(c)	the Motor Dealers and Repairers Act 2013 in relation to the restoration of licences under that Act, and
(d)	the Motor Dealers and Repairers Regulation 2014 in relation to licence details on certain advertisements, and
(e)	the Conveyancers Licensing Act 2003 and the Property, Stock and Business Agents Act 2002 to remove the requirement for a licensee to keep records of former employees, and
(f)	the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 and the Associations Incorporation Regulation 2016 in relation to exemptions for associations and information sharing arrangements.

MATTHEW KEAN, MP

Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence certain provisions of the Fair Trading Legislation

Amendment (Reform) Act 2018 that amend: