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Fair Trading Act 1986

Miscellaneous provisions

47F: Offence to resist, obstruct, or delay

You could also call this:

“It's against the law to stop or slow down special workers doing their job”

You are not allowed to stop or get in the way of certain people doing their jobs. These people are product safety officers, authorised persons with warrants, and authorised employees. If you try to stop them, slow them down, or make it hard for them to do their work, you are breaking the law.

If you break this law, you can be punished. If you are a person on your own, you might have to pay up to $10,000. If you are a company, you might have to pay up to $30,000.

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Part 6 Miscellaneous provisions

47FOffence to resist, obstruct, or delay

  1. Every person commits an offence who resists, obstructs, or delays—

  2. any product safety officer exercising a power under section 33C or 33D; or
    1. any authorised person acting pursuant to a warrant issued under section 47; or
      1. any authorised employee exercising a power under section 47L.

        1. A person who commits an offence against this section is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 in the case of an individual, or $30,000 in the case of a body corporate.

        Notes
        • Section 47F: replaced, on , by section 37 of the Fair Trading Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 143).