Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiries) Amendment Direction 2020

I, Josh Frydenberg, Treasurer, give the following direction to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Dated  22 May 2020

Josh Frydenberg

Treasurer

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiry—Home Loans) Direction 2019

Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiry—Water Markets in the Murray‑Darling Basin) Direction 2019

1  Name

  This instrument is the Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiries) Amendment Direction 2020.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Price Inquiry—Home Loans) Direction 2019

1  Section 8

Omit “30 September 2020”, substitute “30 November 2020”.

Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiry—Water Markets in the Murray‑Darling Basin) Direction 2019

2  Section 7

Before “Under”, insert “(1)”.

3  At the end of section 7

Add:

 (2) Under subsection 95P(3) of the Act, the Commission is directed not to make available for public inspection, copies of any interim report until the Treasurer, in writing, authorises the Commission to do so.

4  Paragraph 7(c)

Omit “31 May”, substitute “30 June”.