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Commerce Act 1986

Consumer protection in relation to water services - Other measures relating to protecting consumers of water services - Additional remedies in relation to failure to comply with Commission service quality code

57ZR: Order to disclose information

You could also call this:

"The court can order you to share information if you don't follow the rules."

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If you fail to follow a Commission service quality code without a good reason, the court can make you do certain things. The court can order you to share information with the public or a specific person, and this information must be something you already have or can access. You will have to share this information in a specific way and at a specific time, and you will have to pay for it yourself.

The court can also order you to publish a statement to correct any wrong information, and the court will decide what this statement should say. You can find more information about this in the Commerce Act 1986. The court can make these decisions as part of a bigger case or on its own, and it can hear the application from the Commission at the same time as other related cases.

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Other measures relating to protecting consumers of water services: Additional remedies in relation to failure to comply with Commission service quality code

57ZROrder to disclose information

  1. The court may make either or both of the following orders if the court is satisfied, on the application of the Commission, that a person has failed without reasonable excuse to comply with a Commission service quality code:

  2. an order requiring that person, or any other person involved in the failure to comply, to disclose to the public, or to a particular person or class of persons, the information or class of information that is specified in the order, being information that is in the possession of the person to whom the order is directed or to which that person has access:
    1. an order requiring that person, or any other person involved in the failure to comply, to publish corrective statements the terms of which are specified in, or are to be determined in accordance with, the order.

      1. The information must be disclosed or published—

      2. in the manner and at the times that are specified in the order; and
        1. at the person’s own expense.

          1. The court may hear and determine an application under subsection (1) in conjunction with any other proceedings under this Part.

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          • Section 57ZR: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).