Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 56BZB

    A person contravenes this section if:

  (a)   the person is an accredited person; and

  (b)   the person's accreditation authorises the person to initiate a type of CDR action; and

  (c)   the person purports to give a valid instruction:

  (i)   for the performance of a CDR action of that type; and

  (ii)   to an action service provider for a CDR action of that type; and

  (iii)   on behalf of a CDR consumer for the CDR action; and

  (d)   when purporting to give that instruction:

  (i)   there was no valid request by the consumer, made in accordance with the consumer data rules, for the giving of that instruction; or

  (ii)   the person had failed to comply with a requirement in the consumer data rules for giving a valid instruction for a CDR action of that type.

Note:   For enforcement, see Part   VI (including section   76 for an order for payment of a pecuniary penalty).