Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Act 2009 (59 of 2009)

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to cartel conduct etc.

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

2   After subsection 5D(5A)

Insert:

Cartel offences

(5B) An offence is also a serious offence if it is:

(a) an offence against section 44ZZRF or 44ZZRG of the Trade Practices Act 1974; or

(b) an offence under subsection 79(1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 that relates to an offence covered by paragraph (a); or

(c) an offence against section 44ZZRF or 44ZZRG of the text set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to the Trade Practices Act 1974, so far as that section applies as a law of a State, the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory; or

(d) an offence under subsection 79(1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (so far as that subsection applies as a law of a State, the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory) that relates to an offence covered by paragraph (c).

Note: Offences covered by paragraph (c) or (d) form part of the Competition Code of the State or Territory concerned.