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Commerce Act 1986

Miscellaneous provisions - Assistance to overseas regulators

99A: Commission may receive information and documents on behalf of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

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"New Zealand Commission can collect information for the Australian Commission"

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission can ask people in New Zealand for information. You can give this information to the New Zealand Commission instead. They will send it to the Australian Commission. The New Zealand Commission must send the information to the Australian Commission as soon as possible. If you do not give the information or give false information, you can get a fine of up to $10,000 if you are an individual, or $30,000 in any other case.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions
Assistance to overseas regulators

99ACommission may receive information and documents on behalf of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

  1. Where the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission requires any person resident or carrying on business in New Zealand to furnish any information or any class of information or produce any document or class of documents to it pursuant to section 155A of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, the information or class of information may be furnished or the document or class of documents may be produced to the Commission for transmission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

  2. The Commission shall deliver the information or class of information furnished or the document or class of documents produced to it to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as soon as practicable.

  3. Every person who—

  4. refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement referred to in subsection (1); or
    1. in purported compliance with such a requirement, furnishes information or produces a document knowing it to be false or misleading—
        1. commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 in the case of an individual, or $30,000 in any other case.

      Notes
      • Section 99A: inserted, on , by section 36 of the Commerce Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 41).
      • Section 99A heading: amended, on , by section 9 of the Commerce Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 113).
      • Section 99A(1): amended, on , by section 32(2)(c) of the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 40).
      • Section 99A(1): amended, on , by section 9 of the Commerce Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 113).
      • Section 99A(2): amended, on , by section 9 of the Commerce Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 113).
      • Section 99A(3): amended, on , by section 32(2)(b) of the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 40).
      • Section 99A(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).