Corporations Point-in-Time Service Updates

The Corporations Point-in-Time Service has been updated to include the latest amendments in the Treasury Legislation Amendment (Small Business and Unfair Contract Terms) Act 2015 (No. 147 of 2015).

Act 147 of 2015

This Act amends the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (CTH) and the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), which is set out in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, to extend the unfair contract term protections currently available to consumers to cover businesses with less than 20 employees agreeing to standard form contracts valued at less than a prescribed threshold.

The amendments made by Act 147 of 2015 have been updated in the Point-in-Time Corporations Service current to 23 November 2015. (NB: Subscription required).

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