Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

TRADING STAMPS ACT 1972 (REPEALED) - SECT 3

    (1)     In this Act, a reference to a prohibited scheme is, subject to subsection (2), a reference to a scheme or arrangements, whether to be carried out wholly within the Territory or partly within and partly outside the Territory, under which—

        (a)     retailers supply or may supply, whether or not for consideration, to customers coupons sold or otherwise supplied to the retailer by another persons; and

        (b)     at the time when the coupons are, or are to be supplied to a customer, the customer is or is to be—

              (i)     promised, either expressly or by implication; or

              (ii)     led to understand;

that, if the customer surrenders or produces to a particular person a number of the kind of coupons to which the scheme or arrangements relate, the customer will be able to obtain, whether with or without payment of money or other consideration, goods or services.

    (2)     A scheme or arrangements shall not be taken to be, for this Act, a "prohibited scheme" if—

        (a)     each coupon used or intended to be used in carrying out the scheme or arrangements is a coupon attached to goods, or forms part of the package in which goods are packed, when they are purchased by retailers; and

        (b)     no person other than the manufacturer or a wholesaler of the goods, a person who has packed the goods, a retailer of the goods or a customer who has purchased the goods is, or is represented to be, a party to the scheme or arrangements.