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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Civil liability - Jurisdiction

94: Jurisdiction of Disputes Tribunal

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“The Disputes Tribunal can help with money problems up to $30,000”

The Disputes Tribunal is a place where you can go if you have a problem with someone and want them to pay you money. This law says that the Disputes Tribunal can help you if you want someone to pay you because of something in sections 78 and 79 of this law.

The Disputes Tribunal can only help you if the amount of money you want is $30,000 or less. They can’t make someone pay more than $30,000, and they can’t say that someone doesn’t have to pay more than $30,000.

If the Disputes Tribunal tries to make a decision about more money than they’re allowed to, their decision won’t count at all. This means that if they say someone should pay more than $30,000, or that someone doesn’t have to pay more than $30,000, that decision won’t work.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Civil liability: Jurisdiction

94Jurisdiction of Disputes Tribunal

  1. The Disputes Tribunal established under section 4 of the Disputes Tribunal Act 1988 may hear and determine applications for orders to pay compensation under sections 78 and 79 if the amount claimed does not exceed $30,000.

  2. An order of the Disputes Tribunal under this Act must not—

  3. require a person to pay an amount exceeding $30,000; or
    1. declare a person not liable to another person for an amount exceeding $30,000.

      1. An order of the Tribunal that exceeds any restriction specified in subsection (2) is entirely of no effect.