The record

The Act, section by section

23 sections, 5 of them placing a duty on a supplier. Each page states the requirement in our words, who it binds, the evidence, the actions and the exact provision.

Every page links to the authorised text of Competition and Consumer Amendment (Unfair Trading Practices) Act 2026. Where the Act leaves a detail to regulations, the page says so.

Section	What it does	Kind	Tag
Part 1 unfair trading practicesThe general ban on conduct that manipulates a consumer or distorts the setting of a decision, and causes detriment.
28B(1)	The ban on unfair trading practices Do not use conduct connected with a sale, or an offer of sale, of goods or services to a consumer that meets the unfair trading test. The prohibition ...	duty	General prohibition
28B(2)	The two-limb test for unfair conduct Apply both limbs together. A manipulative design with no detriment is outside the definition; a harmful outcome with no manipulation or distortion is ...	scope	Definition
28B(3)	Who is outside the unfair conduct ban Check the status of the customer before treating the ban as engaged. A body corporate consumer is outside it. So is a sale made while the customer ope...	scope	Scope
28B(6)	Four examples of unfair trading conduct Treat the four examples as a review checklist, not a closed list. They show the kind of conduct the test is aimed at, and the Act says they do not lim...	scope	Examples
28B(7)	How the new ban sits with Part 3-1 Do not read the new ban as replacing or narrowing misleading conduct, unconscionable conduct, false representations or the other Part 3-1 prohibitions...	scope	Relationship
Part 2 drip pricingTransaction based charges must be shown with the base price, in a legible, prominent and unambiguous way, close to the price.
48A(2)	Drip pricing: what must be shown Display the four required pieces of information for every transaction based charge attached to the supply. The duty is triggered by displaying a base ...	duty	Pricing duty
48A(3)	How the charge information must be shown Place the charge information with the base price, at the same time, in a form a consumer can read without searching. It must be prominent relative to ...	duty	Pricing duty
48A(6)	Base price and transaction based charge Classify each amount before applying the display duty. A tax, duty, fee or levy is not a base price. Optional charges, payment surcharges, taxes impos...	scope	Definition
Part 3 subscription contractsDisclosure before sign-up, information during the contract, and an exit route that is easy to find and use.
48B	What counts as a subscription contract Test every recurring or continuing supply against the four gateways. A contract can meet more than one. Free supply is disregarded when deciding wheth...	scope	Definition
48C	Contracts left out of the subscription rules Check the exclusion list before applying the subscription duties. The list is specific, and a regulation can add to it.	scope	Scope
48D(2)	What to disclose before sign-up Give the subscription statement and the section 48D(4) information when the offer is made. The default manner is either comprehensible, audible and un...	duty	Disclosure duty
48D(4)	The six matters to disclose Disclose every listed matter for the offer. The five substantive matters are cumulative, and paragraph (4)(f) lets a regulation add more. A generic "t...	duty	Disclosure duty
48E(1)	Information while the subscription is running Give the prescribed information, legibly, prominently and without ambiguity, at each prescribed time. Until a kind of contract and the information are...	duty	Information duty
48F(1)	An exit that is easy to find and use Provide at least one exit route, make every route easy to find and straightforward, and keep the steps to what is needed. Add an online route where th...	duty	Exit duty
48G	Consumer and small business cover Decide which requirement the subscriber meets, because sections 48E and 48F depend on it. Count casual employees only if they are engaged regularly an...	scope	Scope
48H	Standard form contracts in this Division Apply the section 48H test, not the general section 27 test, in this Division. The presumption sits against the supplier, and minor negotiation or a c...	scope	Scope
21	The statutory review of the subscription rules This is a duty on the Commonwealth Minister, not on a supplier. It matters to a supplier because the review is the formal route through which the subs...	machinery	Review
Part 4 application and reviewWhen the new rules start to apply, how existing contracts are treated, and the statutory review.
311	Conduct caught from the start date Date the conduct, not the contract. A sale made before 1 July 2027 does not take later conduct outside the ban.	application	Application
312	Which contracts the subscription rules reach Date the contract and each renewal, extension, continuation or variation. The rules reach an earlier contract when one of those events happens after t...	application	Application
313	The acquisition of property safeguard Do not read the safeguard as a business defence. It applies only so far as the three sections would take property other than on just terms and the acq...	application	Application
Part 5 Enforcement, penalties and reachThe penalty settings, the enforcement provisions that now cover the new Part, and the constitutional reach.
penalties	Penalties and enforcement for the new Part Treat the new Part as a penalty-bearing regime. The Act adds Part 2-4 to the provisions listed in sections 224, 247, 248 and 251, and inserts a penalt...	enforcement	Enforcement
6(3B)	Reach beyond corporations Do not assume the new Part reaches only corporations. The extension is designed to reach conduct connected with communications services and persons wh...	scope	Reach
Part 0 CommencementThe whole Act starts on one date. Every page states it with its source.
2	Commencement: 1 July 2027 Use 1 July 2027 as the start date for the Act. The table relates only to the Act as originally enacted, so a later amendment is dealt with separately.	machinery	Commencement

The Act in four markets

The scan for this build looked for held frameworks in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Australia, in that order. The Act is Australian. The other markets are named here so a reader does not mistake this record for their law.

United States

The federal unfair or deceptive acts or practices provision in section 5 of the FTC Act is named, not held. This site does not state it and it is not a substitute for it.

European Union

Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices is named, not held. This site does not state it.

United Kingdom

The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the subscription provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 are named, not held. This site does not state them.

Australia

This Act is held in full and read section by section. The Australian Consumer Law in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 is held, and so are two related instruments that matter to telecommunications sellers: the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code C628:2019 (Variation 1/2022) and the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999. The section pages state the Act's requirements; the related instruments are linked, not restated here.

Australian Consumer Law / Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code / Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

The record

The rules this is built from

Nothing here is invented. The site reads the official Act, section by section, and points to the provision behind each answer.

One Act, read in full

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Unfair Trading Practices) Act 2026, C2026A00064: Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 1, the penalty items and the commencement table.

Read the official text

Five duty provisions held as controls

Sections 28B(1), 48A(2), 48D(2), 48E(1) and 48F(1), with the evidence a regulator asks for.

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Eighteen more sections mapped

Scope, application, enforcement and machinery, so the duty is not read out of context.

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