Competition and Consumer Point-in-Time Service Updates

The Competition and Consumer Point-in-Time Service has been updated to include the Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Act 2025 (Cth) (Act No 72 of 2025) and the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Food and Grocery) Amendment (Supermarkets Excessive Pricing Prohibition) Regulations 2025 (Cth).

Act 72 of 2025

This Act amends the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the Corporations Act), the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), and the law relating to charities, taxation and the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority; and makes minor and technical amendments to Treasury portfolio legislation. 

The amendments made by this Act to the Corporations Act aim to enhance the beneficial ownership disclosure obligations that already apply to entities listed on Australia's financial markets. These amendments seek to bolster the substantial holding and tracing notice regimes that govern the disclosure of beneficially owned interests in listed entities.

Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Food and Grocery) Amendment (Supermarkets Excessive Pricing Prohibition) Regulations 2025

These Regulations amend the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct to promote workably competitive outcomes in grocery product markets and enhance the welfare of consumers by prohibiting excessive pricing for grocery products by very large retailers. Specifically, the Regulations make amendments to:

• require corporations to notify the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) when they become, or cease to be, a very large retailer;
• prohibit very large retailers from supplying or offering to supply a kind of grocery product to consumers at an excessive price; and
• require very large retailers to keep certain information or documents relating to the excessive pricing prohibition.

These amendments have been updated in the Point-in-Time Competition and Consumer Service current to 15 January 2026. (NB: Subscription required).

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