Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:clause:2_188
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 188
Character Range: 2670086–2670531

188  Lay‑by agreements must be in writing etc.
 (1) A supplier of goods who is a party to a lay‑by agreement commits an offence if:
 (a) the agreement is not in writing; or
 (b) a copy of the agreement is not given to the consumer to whom the goods are, or are to be, supplied.
Penalty:
 (a) if the person is a body corporate—$30,000; or
 (b) if the person is not a body corporate—$6,000.
 (2) Subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.