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

  (ba)   to enable consumers in those sectors to request accredited persons to give instructions:

  (i)   safely, efficiently and conveniently on behalf of the consumers; and

  (ii)   to service providers in those sectors;

    for the performance of actions; and

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