Free check

Which parts of the Act apply to you?

Answer seven questions about your customers, your prices and your subscriptions. The check returns the parts that apply, the start date, the first actions and the evidence to keep. It runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.

Free check, no account

Does the Act apply to you, and from when?

Seven questions. The check returns the parts that apply, the date, the first actions and the evidence to keep. It runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.

Do you supply, or offer to supply, goods or services to consumers in Australia?Leave blank if you do not know. The check will say what is missing rather than guess.

Do you display a base price for goods or services ordinarily bought for personal, domestic or household use?Leave blank if you do not know. The check will say what is missing rather than guess.

Do you add a per-transaction charge at or near checkout?Leave blank if you do not know. The check will say what is missing rather than guess.

Do you offer a subscription, recurring, fixed-term rolling, free-trial or introductory-price contract?Leave blank if you do not know. The check will say what is missing rather than guess.

Can the subscriber enter that contract online?Leave blank if you do not know. The check will say what is missing rather than guess.

Who are those subscribers?Leave blank if you do not know. The check will say what is missing rather than guess.

Will the conduct or the contract start on or after 1 July 2027?Leave blank if you do not know. The check will say what is missing rather than guess.

The check applies the Act as drafted. It does not decide whether a particular design is manipulative, whether a charge is a payment surcharge or whether a contract is a standard form contract. Not legal advice; does not certify.

What the check does not decide

It does not decide whether a particular design manipulates a consumer, whether a charge is a payment surcharge, whether a contract is a standard form contract or whether a subscriber meets the small business test on the facts. Those are judgements on the evidence, and the check names them rather than guessing. Where an answer is missing it returns "scope incomplete" and names the field.

How the result is computed

The rules are in the record: the answer to each question maps to a section of the Act, and the section carries the date and the evidence. The browser reads /seed/scope.json and applies the same rules the pages cite. No request leaves the browser and no answer is stored.

What to do with the result

Start with the duties that apply and the first action for each. Keep the evidence the page names. If the result says a part does not apply, the reason and the section are shown, so you can check it. If the result says "not yet operative", the Act leaves the detail to regulations, and the watch is the way to hear when that changes.

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.

See the standards record

Eighteen more sections mapped

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

Open the section index

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