Competition and Consumer Amendment (Review of Exemptions to Privacy Safeguards) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated   20 July  2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Stephen Jones

Assistant Treasurer
Minister for Financial Services

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Competition and Consumer Regulations 2010

1  Name

  This instrument is the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Review of Exemptions to Privacy Safeguards) Regulations 2023.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Competition and Consumer Regulations 2010

1  At the end of subregulation 28RA(4)

Add:

Review

 (5) The Minister must cause a review of the operation of this regulation to be undertaken within the period of 10 years after the commencement of the regulation.

 (6) The persons undertaking the review must give the Minister a written report of the review as soon as possible after the review is completed.

 (7) The Minister must cause a copy of the report of the review to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the report is given to the Minister.

Repeal

 (8) Subregulations (5), (6), (7) and (8) are repealed on 30 June 2032.