Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Food and Grocery) Amendment (Infringement Notices) Regulations 2025 (Cth)

Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Food and Grocery) Amendment (Infringement Notices) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 28 March 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Dr Andrew Leigh

Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Food and Grocery) Amendment (Infringement Notices) Regulations 2025.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The later of: (a) immediately after the commencement of the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Food and Grocery) Regulations 2024; and (b) the start of the day after this instrument is registered.	1 April 2025 (paragraph (a) applies)

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1AmendmentsCompetition and Consumer (Industry CodesFood and Grocery) Regulations 20241

Before section 15

Insert:

14BAmount of penalty to be specified in infringement notices

Subsection 51ACF(2) of the Act applies to this Code.

Note: This means that the penalty to be specified in an infringement notice to be issued to a person for an alleged contravention of this Code must be equal to:

(a) if the person is a body corporate—600 penalty units; or

(b) otherwise—12 penalty units.