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Commerce Act 1986

Competition studies

51: Minister may require Commission to carry out competition study

You could also call this:

"The Minister can ask a group to study how businesses compete with each other."

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The Minister can ask the Commission to do a study on competition by putting a notice in the Gazette. You will know this has happened because the notice must be made publicly available. The Minister must talk to the Commission before issuing the notice.

The notice must say what the study is about and when the final report must be ready. The Minister can change the notice after talking to the Commission. The Minister can also cancel the notice by putting another notice in the Gazette, but only after talking to the Commission.

The Commission must do the study if the Minister asks them to, and they must make the final report publicly available by the date specified in the notice.

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Part 3ACompetition studies

51Minister may require Commission to carry out competition study

  1. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, require the Commission to carry out a competition study if the Minister considers it to be in the public interest to do so.

  2. The notice must—

  3. prescribe the terms of reference for the study; and
    1. specify the date by which the Commission must make the final report for the study publicly available.

      1. A copy of the notice must be made publicly available.

      2. Before issuing the notice, the Minister must consult the Commission on a draft of the notice.

      3. The Minister may amend the notice in the manner set out in subsections (1) to (4).

      4. The Minister, having first consulted with the Commission, may revoke the notice by further notice in the Gazette.

      Notes
      • Section 51: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Commerce Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 42).