Anti-competitive provisions and review procedures
15 Anti-competitive provisions and review procedures
For the Act, schedule 4, definition anti-competitive provision, a provision is identified as creating a barrier to entry to a market or competition within a market if a local government, applying the competition policy guidelines, identifies the provision as creating one of those barriers.
For section 38(1) of the Act, the procedures prescribed are the procedures mentioned in the competition policy guidelines.
The competition policy guidelines is the document called ‘National Competition Policy Guidelines for conducting reviews on anti-competitive provisions in local laws’, version 1, made by the department.
Editor’s note—
A copy of the competition policy guidelines is available on the department’s website.
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