Inconsistencies with other enactments
15 Inconsistencies with other enactments
This section applies if a provision of the Australian Consumer Law (WA) Part 3‑3 or an applied regulation is inconsistent with —
a provision of an Act specified in Schedule 1; or
a provision of an instrument made under an Act so specified.
In subsection (1) —
applied regulation means a regulation that —
is referred to in section 19(1)(b); and
is applied by section 19(2)(a); and
has effect for the purposes of the Australian Consumer Law (WA) Part 3‑3.
If this section applies, the provision of the Act so specified, or of the instrument, prevails.
[Section 15 amended: No. 11 of 2013 s. 4; No. 19 of 2016 s. 136.]
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
- Fair Trading (Advisory Committees) Regulations 2011
- Fair Trading (Fitness Industry Code of Practice) Regulations 2020
- Fair Trading (Funeral Pricing Code of Practice) Regulations 2022
3 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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