Fair Trading Act 1986

Miscellaneous provisions

47K: Commission may authorise employees for monitoring and enforcement purposes

You could also call this:

“Commission can give staff permission to check and enforce rules about product safety and information”

The Commission can allow its employees to check and enforce rules about certain things. These include standards for consumer information, product safety, and services safety. They also cover notices about unsafe goods and stopping the supply of goods.

If the Commission lets an employee do this job, they must give the employee a special certificate. This certificate proves that the employee is allowed to do the job.

The Commission decides what the certificate looks like. The certificate must include some important information. It needs to mention this part of the law, have the full name of the employee, and say what powers the employee has. It also needs to mention if the employee has any powers under another law called the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.

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Part 6 Miscellaneous provisions

47KCommission may authorise employees for monitoring and enforcement purposes

  1. The Commission may authorise any employee (an authorised employee) to monitor and enforce compliance with any or all of the following:

  2. consumer information standards:
    1. product safety standards:
      1. unsafe goods notices:
        1. suspension of supply notices:
          1. services safety standards.
            1. Every employee so authorised must be issued with a certificate as evidence of the person's appointment.

            2. The certificate must be in a form determined by the Commission and contain—

            3. a reference to this section; and
              1. the full name of the authorised employee; and
                1. a reference to the powers conferred on the authorised employee under section 47L; and
                  1. a statement of the powers (if any) of the authorised employee under the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.
                    Notes
                    • Section 47K: inserted, on , by section 39 of the Fair Trading Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 143).