THE COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 The CCA is another law made by the ACCC to protect consumers in the market. The act protects the welfare of Australians by encouraging fair trading and competition. It provides consumer protection in the following ways • Safe products and labelling • Unfair market practices • Monitoring prices • Industry codes • Regulation of industry ( electricity, gas, telecommunications) • Merges and acquisitions
An offeror will have made an offer where it appears to a reasonable person in the position of the offeree that an offer was intended.
The Uniform Commercial Code is a comprehensive code necessary that throughout the United States of America, states abide by in order to mandate the interaction of sales between buyers and seller. The Uniform Commercial code would be nothing without commercial law. Commercial law applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and businesses committed in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales. These laws have evolved sufficiently throughout the years. The Uniform Commercial Code and Commercial law have created a rule-book so that problems that would delay interpretation and efficiency of trade would not occur.
Studmaster Pty Ltd was a landlord that owned a shopping complex in Bourke Street, Melbourne. Mrs Tran operated the “Vietnamese Lunch Box” outlet in the food court. She had little ability to speak or read English, which the representatives for Studmaster knew about. Studmaster proposed a three year renewal of her lease at $48,000 per annum plus GST for the first year and CPI increments in the second and third years.
For so many years, this nation has been creating policies and laws to protect the people and their way of life. One particular law that was passed still creates a lot of confusion on whether this law pertains to them or not. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is a federal law to protect workers, their families, and society from sudden or unforeseen job losses due to plant closings and massive layoffs. The WARN Act was originally enacted on August 4, 1988, but it evidentially became effective on February 4, 1989 (Department of Labor, 2013).
The statutory standard of care for professionals such as teachers can be found in s 22 of the Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) which states that
Consumer protection laws are federal and state statues governing sales and credit practices involving consumer goods. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices, Truth in Lending Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Warranties and Consumer Remedies are laws that were establish to give the consumer a fair shake at buying or borrowing money. Goods that were purchase or service for personal use were presumed fair that buyers and sellers would bargained for equal positions. The consumer protection is a law that has to contribute to safety, protecting the health of consumers and the economic interest of consumers. Local trade practices consider unfair or deceptive may fall with Federal Trade Commission laws and regulations and have an effect on interstate commerce. Federal and state laws governing sales, credit financing and reporting, product quality, leases, sales practices, debt collection and other aspects of consumer transactions may be regulated as deceptive trade practices. Consumers are protected by several types of agencies and statues that are enforced by state and federal laws. Today many of consumer protection issues are involve with the
When it comes to policies CCASA has different ones depending on what they are doing at a specific place or event. According to Raana CCASA engages in legislative advocacy at the State Capitol to advise policymakers and to work along sig other key stakeholders to improve the different systems response to
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) is a new health care legislation law passed by the American government in 2012 to reform the United States health care system. All the states will enact this legislation, however, selected will limit the provision provided to their citizens (Kaiser Commisson, 2013). According to Spares, (2011), the ACA opens the door for many 47 million nonelderly uninsured Americans who have never been eligible for affordable health care insurance including many of the 1.8 million uninsured Georgians. The ACA health care reform law’s goal is to decrease the number of uninsured community and increase health care regulations so that health care quality increases in a cost efficient way (Sparer, 2011). Part of the ACA’s provisions will be to increase wellness care for a healthier America to prevent costly chronic disease treatment (Knickman & Kovner, 2015).
The purpose of this review is to investigate through journal sources, government data points, and published opinions and experiences aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it relates to arguments that the law should be repealed. I investigated the goals of the ACA, changes in care and insurance coverage, impacts on the labor market, and changes in insurance premium rates since the ACA was signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 201 (Hong, Holcomb, Bhandari, & Larkin, 2016) 0.
In 2010, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). The landmark legislation effected numerous stakeholder groups in the realm of health care. One of the most important stakeholder groups were doctors. The support of many doctors and the endorsement of the American Medical Association (AMA) proved critical in the passage of the ACA. However, there has also been skepticism regarding certain provisions in the legislation among doctors. Nonetheless, doctors’ groups have been mostly supportive of the ACA.
A. According to the Communications Decency Act(CDA), cyberspace has many of the problems conterversise among crime, advertising,gaming,copyright,gambling
Australian is the land the rules and regulations. I don’t think I have ever lived in country that is so highly regulated like this one. Australian has about seven states and they all govern themselves thus they have their own laws that maybe different from other states. The Australian government, state and territory government legislation exists to protect businesses, consumers, individuals, the environment and the community. This enables a conducive environment for business to flourish as well as to promote fair-trading and competition. One would ask why should governments spend enough time putting place such regulations. This is because without laws to govern how businesses operate and interact with their suppliers, customers and fellow businesses, there will be chaos every well and it would be each man for himself and God for us all. Thus, regulations stipulate what can and cannot be done in the business environment and what can be done when conflict arises. For example, If Mangoes for Charity promised customers that it would refund them up to $20 if they bought 3 boxes and referred at least three new customers to buy mangoes. If this company breached such an arrangement then, the Australian Consumer law would provide a service by protecting the consumer’s right. Thus, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission could argue in favour of the consumer that the business misled customers when it informed them that they had no cooling off rights. It was not explained to
This essay will analyse the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (‘CRA 2015’) as it is a significant element of the government’s reform of consumer law in the UK. The Act has been lauded as an immense upheaval of consumer law due to the integration of eight existing pieces of legislation into one. The complicated regulations regarding goods and services that consumers and businesses struggle to comprehend will no longer apply under the Act.
Debt settlement consumer protection act helps you to reap benefits. But how? This is a simple question but needs a serious explanation. This article tries to give that explanation to you. After the Federal economy was hit by recession, thousands of people were thrown out of their jobs by the employers. This created a serious financial crisis for the consumers. They failed to repay their debts and became defaulters. They eventually filed for bankruptcy and pulled down their credit score. They lost their credibility and failed to get any further credit from any creditor for the next 7-10 years that followed.
In United Arab Emirates; a new federal consumer protection law has been promulgated. Under which a consumer protection committee formed to monitor the prices of consumer goods. The provisions of the laws advocate the principle of healthy competition and fighting monopoly and commercial fraudulence.