Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiry—Child Care) Amendment Direction 2023

I, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, give the following direction to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Dated   22 August  2023

Dr Andrew Leigh

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiry—Child Care) Direction 2022

1  Name

  This instrument is the Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiry—Child Care) Amendment Direction 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Price Inquiry—Child Care) Direction 2022

1  Section 7

Repeal the section, substitute:

7  Directions as to holding of the inquiry

  Under subsection 95J(6) of the Act, the Commission in holding the inquiry is directed to do all of the following:

 (a) give to the Treasurer a first interim report on the inquiry by no later than 30 June 2023;

 (b) give to the Treasurer a second interim report on the inquiry by no later than 30 September 2023.