New Zealand Legislation: Acts

28 Compliance with consumer information standards

• (1) If a consumer information standard in respect of goods or services relates to a matter specified in section 27(1), a person must not supply, or offer to supply, or advertise to supply those goods or services unless that person complies with that consumer information standard.

  (2) If 2 or more consumer information standards in respect of goods or services relate to a matter specified in section 27(1), a person must not supply, or offer to supply, or advertise to supply those goods or services unless that person complies with 1 of those consumer information standards.

  (3) Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (2) applies to goods that are intended for use outside New Zealand if there is applied to the goods—

  • (a) A statement that the goods are for export only; or

  • (b) A statement indicating, by the use of words authorised by regulations made under this section, that the goods are intended to be used outside New Zealand,—

  and it must be presumed for the purposes of this section, unless the contrary is established, that the goods so identified are intended to be so used.

  (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), a statement is deemed to be applied to goods if the statement is—

  • (a) Woven in, impressed on, worked into, or annexed or affixed to the goods; or

  • (b) Applied to a covering, label, reel, or thing in or with which the goods are supplied.

  Part 2 (comprising sections 27 and 28) was substituted, as from 28 July 1997, for the former Part 2 (comprising sections 27 and 28) by section 3 Fair Trading Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 43). See section 6(1) of that Act as to the transitional provisions relating to regulations made under the former sections 27 and 28 in force before 28 July 1997.