Fair Trading Legislation Amendment (Consumer Guarantee Directions) Act 2018 No 43 Commencement Proclamation (2018-698) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Fair Trading Legislation Amendment (Consumer Guarantee Directions) Act

2018 No 43

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 of the Fair Trading Legislation

Amendment (Consumer Guarantee Directions) Act 2018, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint

28 December 2018 as the day on which the uncommenced provisions of that Act commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 5th day of December 2018.

By His Excellency’s Command,

MATT KEAN, MP

Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence Schedule 1 to the Fair Trading Legislation Amendment

(Consumer Guarantee Directions) Act 2018, which inserts provisions into the Fair Trading Act 1987 to

enable the Commissioner for Fair Trading to resolve certain small consumer claims disputes by way of a
direction to repair or replace, or make a refund in relation to, the consumer good concerned.

Published LW 7 December 2018 (2018 No 698)