Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01651:reg:32:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01651
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 32 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 42717–43940

large grocery business must ensure the senior buyer for a supplier promptly complies, in writing, with any written request from the supplier for:
 (a) a statement of the genuine commercial reasons for a delisting; or
 (b) information (or additional information) relating to a delisting.
This subsection applies whether or not the large grocery business complied (or was required to comply) with subsection (6).
Civil penalty: 600 penalty units.
 (9) A large grocery business must ensure the senior buyer for a supplier, after receiving a written request from the supplier, promptly reviews any decisions regarding delisting made by the large grocery business and provides the supplier with written notice of the outcome of that review including the basis for the decision of the large grocery business.
Civil penalty: 600 penalty units.
 (10) To avoid doubt, a decision by a large grocery business not to extend a fixed term grocery supply agreement, or enter into a new grocery supply agreement, following the expiry of an agreement is not a decision to delist a product.
 (11) A large grocery business that wishes to rely on subsection (2) or (7) must prove the matters in that subsection on the balance of probabilities.