| Title | Unit Pricing (Easy comparison of grocery prices) Bill 2008 |
| Database | Bills & Legislation |
| Long Title | A Bill for an Act to require unit prices of grocery products sold by measure, weight or volume to be displayed, and for related purposes |
| Date | 15-05-2008 12:01 AM |
| Source | Senate |
| Parl No. | 42 |
| Bill Number | 2008/085 |
| Bill Type | Private |
| Reps Bill Code | O |
| Status | Before Senate |
| System Id | legislation/bills/s628_first/0001 |
2008
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Unit Pricing (Easy comparison of grocery prices) Bill 2008
No. , 2008
(Senator Fielding)
A Bill for an Act to require unit prices of grocery products sold by measure, weight or volume to be displayed, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
4............ Object of Act....................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1âAmendment of the National Measurement Act 1960 3
A Bill for an Act to require unit prices of grocery products sold by measure, weight or volume to be displayed, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Unit Pricing (Easy comparison of grocery prices) Act 2008.
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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Provision(s) |
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1. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table |
The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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2. Schedule 1 |
A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if any of the provision(s) do not commence within the period of 12 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
The object of this Act is to require retailers selling grocery products to display unit prices for grocery products sold by measure, weight or volume.