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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Civil liability - Injunctions

80: Court may grant injunctions

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“A judge can tell people to stop breaking rules or to follow rules about customer and product information”

The court can give orders called injunctions. These orders can do two things. First, they can stop someone from doing something that goes against the civil liability rules in the law. Second, they can make someone do something if they have refused to do it and that refusal goes against the civil liability rules. The chief executive or anyone else can ask the court for these orders. This helps make sure people follow the rules in the Customer and Product Data Act 2025.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Civil liability: Injunctions

80Court may grant injunctions

  1. The court may, on application by the chief executive or any other person, grant an injunction—

  2. restraining a person from engaging or continuing to engage in conduct that constitutes or would constitute a contravention, an attempted contravention, or an involvement in a contravention of a civil liability provision; or
    1. requiring a person to do an act or a thing if—
      1. that person has refused or failed, is refusing or failing, or is proposing to refuse or fail to do that act or thing; and
        1. the refusal or failure was, is, or would be a contravention of a civil liability provision.