Roused Regulator Re-Rattles Realtor’s Cage
by Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au
Last year in Property Review Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel argued that, when a complaint was made, the role of the ACCC was not to determine whether the Trade Practices Act had been breached. While the ACCC would make “its assessment of the matter before it”, he explained, the ACCC’s primary role was to “enforce the Act and to educate the Australian public about the Act.
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