2016‑2017‑2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Competition and Consumer Amendment (Free Range Eggs) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Ms Sharkie)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Competition and Consumer Act 2010 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Free Range Eggs) Act 2018.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act 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.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this Act | The day after the end of the period of 12 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Competition and Consumer Act 2010
1 At the end of section 134 of Schedule 2
Add:
(3) An information standard under subsection (1) for eggs has no effect to the extent that:
(a) the standard permits eggs that do not satisfy all of the following conditions to be represented (whether on labelling or otherwise) as free range eggs:
(i) the eggs are laid by hens that are able to move about freely on an open range during daylight hours on most days;
(ii) a majority of those hens do in fact move about freely on the open range during daylight hours on most days;
(iii) the hens are subject to a stocking density of no more than 1,500 hens per hectare; or
(b) the standard permits information about the stocking density of the hens that laid free range eggs to be displayed (whether on labelling or otherwise) otherwise than as hens per hectare; or
(c) the standard permits eggs that are cage‑free eggs but that do not satisfy all of the conditions in paragraph (a) to be represented (whether on labelling or otherwise) as anything other than access to range eggs.