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Competition and Consumer Amendment (Industry CodesFranchising) (Treasury) Delegations 2025

I, Steven Kennedy, Secretary to the Department of the Treasury, make the following delegations.

Dated   28 March 2025

 

Steven Kennedy

Secretary

Department of the Treasury

 

 

 

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Franchising) (Treasury) Delegations 2022

 

 

  This instrument is the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Industry Codes—Franchising) (Treasury) Delegations 2025.

 (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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The later of:

(a) the day after this instrument is registered; and

(b) 1 April 2025.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

  This instrument is made under the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Franchising) Regulations 2024.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

 

1  Section 3

Omit “Regulation 2014”, substitute “Regulations 2024”.

2  Section 4 (note to section heading)

Omit “Regulation 2014”, substitute “Regulations 2024”.

3  Subsection 4(1) (definition of Franchising Code of Conduct)

Repeal the definition.

4  Subsection 4(1) (definition of privacy officer)

Repeal the definition.

5  Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

the Regulations means the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Franchising) Regulations 2024.

6  Subsection 5(1)

Omit “subclause 53H(1) of the Franchising Code of Conduct”, substitute “subsection 96(1) of the Regulations”.

7  Section 5(1)

Omit “Part 5A of the Franchising Code of Conduct”, substitute “Part 7 of Chapter 2 of the Regulations”.

8  Subsection 5(1) (note)

Omit “Part 5A of the Franchising Code of Conduct”, substitute “Part 7 of Chapter 2 of the Regulations”.

9  Subsection 5(2)

Repeal the subsection.