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Commerce Act 1986

Enforcement, remedies, and appeals - Regulated goods or services

87C: Injunction and other orders relating to price-quality, quality, or performance requirement regulation

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"Stopping suppliers who break the rules about price, quality, or performance"

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If you think someone is supplying goods or services in a way that breaks the rules, you can ask the court for help. The court can stop the supplier from breaking the rules or make them follow the rules. You can ask the court to do this if the goods or services are not meeting the required standards for price, quality, or performance. The court can make decisions about this if they are satisfied that the rules are being broken. Any person can ask the court for this help, which can include an injunction or an order, as outlined in the Commerce Act 1986.

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Part 6Enforcement, remedies, and appeals
Regulated goods or services

87CInjunction and other orders relating to price-quality, quality, or performance requirement regulation

  1. If the court is satisfied that goods or services that are subject to price-quality, quality, or performance requirement regulation are being supplied, or are likely to be supplied, in contravention of any price-quality, quality, or performance requirement applying with respect to those goods or services, the court may do either or both of the following:

  2. grant an injunction restraining any supplier of those goods or services from supplying them in contravention of the price-quality, quality, or performance requirement:
    1. make an order requiring the supplier to supply the goods or services in accordance with the price-quality, quality, or performance requirement applying to them.

      1. An application for an injunction or an order under this section may be made by any person.

      Notes
      • Section 87C: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Commerce Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 70).
      • Section 87C heading: amended, on , by section 21(1) of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).
      • Section 87C(1): replaced, on , by section 21(2) of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).
      • Section 87C(2): amended, on , by section 20(2) of the Commerce Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 42).