Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00868:clause:2_102
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00868
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 102
Character Range: 179163–180378

102  Prescribed requirements for warranties against defects

 (1) The regulations may prescribe requirements relating to the form and content of warranties against defects.

 (2) A person must not, in connection with the supply, in trade or commerce, of goods or services to a consumer:
 (a) give to the consumer a document that evidences a warranty against defects that does not comply with the requirements prescribed for the purposes of subsection (1); or
 (b) represent directly to the consumer that the goods or services are goods or services to which such a warranty against defects relates.

Note: A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention of this subsection.

 (3) A warranty against defects is a representation communicated to a consumer in connection with the supply of goods or services, at or about the time of supply, to the effect that a person will (unconditionally or on specified conditions):
 (a) repair or replace the goods or part of them; or
 (b) provide again or rectify the services or part of them; or
 (c) wholly or partly recompense the consumer;
if the goods or services or part of them are defective, and includes any document by which such a representation is evidenced.