Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 56AA

                   The object of this Part is:

                     (a)  to enable consumers in certain sectors of the Australian economy to require information relating to themselves in those sectors to be disclosed safely, efficiently and conveniently:

                              (i)  to themselves for use as they see fit; or

                             (ii)  to accredited persons for use subject to privacy safeguards; and

                     (b)  to enable any person to efficiently and conveniently access information in those sectors that:

                              (i)  is about goods (such as products) or services; and

                             (ii)  does not relate to any identifiable, or reasonably identifiable, consumers; and

                     (c)  as a result of paragraphs (a) and (b), to create more choice and competition, or to otherwise promote the public interest.