Webquest - Rights of Consumers and Responsibilities of Producers
What is the Fair Trading Act? How does it affect me?
Questions
- What is the Fair Trading Act?
The Fair Trading Act is a statute of New Zealand.
It has a purpose is to protect consumers from misleading and deceptive conduct and unfair trades.
It has a purpose is to protect consumers from misleading and deceptive conduct and unfair trades.
- Who besides the commission is responsible for the act and can take their own legal action? You can take your own legal actions
- Who are the two types of groups the act applies to? The act applies to the Consumers and Producers
Understand your compliance obligations
- What do the acts apply to? The act applies to Everyone.
- Does it only apply if you intend to deceive? Explain?
- Whose ‘shoes’ must the business put themselves into?
The business must put then self in The consumers/the product buyer shoes.
- What is the commission empowered to do? Give an instruction, command or duty given to a person or group of people.
