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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Civil liability - Compensatory orders

80: When court or Disputes Tribunal may make compensatory orders

You could also call this:

“When a court can order someone to pay you money if they break the rules”

This bill proposes that a court or the Disputes Tribunal might be able to make a compensatory order. This means they could order someone to pay money to another person who has been harmed. They can do this if two things are true:

First, someone has broken a rule that could make them responsible for paying compensation. Second, another person (called the ‘aggrieved person’) has been hurt or is likely to be hurt because of this rule-breaking.

The court or Disputes Tribunal can make this order even if the person who was hurt isn’t directly involved in the legal case. This means you don’t have to be the one taking someone to court to potentially get compensation.

Remember, this is just a proposed law, not something that’s in effect right now.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Civil liability: Compensatory orders

80When court or Disputes Tribunal may make compensatory orders

  1. The court or the Disputes Tribunal may make a compensatory order, on application by the chief executive or any other person, if the court or the Disputes Tribunal is satisfied that—

  2. a person has contravened a civil liability provision; and
    1. another person (the aggrieved person) has suffered, or is likely to suffer, loss or damage because of the contravention.

      1. The court or the Disputes Tribunal may make a compensatory order whether or not the aggrieved person is a party to the proceeding.