Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 2B

  (1)   The following provisions of this Act bind the Crown in right of each of the States, of the Northern Territory and of the Australian Capital Territory, so far as the Crown carries on a business, either directly or by an authority of the State or Territory:

  (a)   Part   IV;

  (aaa)   Part   IVBA;

  (aa)   Part   V;

  (b)   Part   XIB;

  (ba)   Part   XICA;

  (c)   the other provisions of this Act so far as they relate to the above provisions.

  (2)   Nothing in this Act renders the Crown in right of a State or Territory liable to a pecuniary penalty or to be prosecuted for an offence.

  (3)   The protection in subsection   (2) does not apply to an authority of a State or Territory.