Victorian Current Acts

COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLE INDUSTRY ACT 2017 - SECT 120

    (1)     This section applies if a person (the injured person ) suffers, or is likely to suffer, loss or damage because of—

        (a)     conduct engaged in by another person in contravention of section 113(3); or

        (b)     conduct referred to in section 115(2)(b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) engaged in by another person that relates to a contravention of section 113(3).

    (2)     The Supreme Court may make any other order or orders that it thinks appropriate against the person who engaged in the conduct on an application made by—

        (a)     the injured person; or

        (b)     the regulator on behalf of one or more injured persons.

    (3)     An order must be an order that the Supreme Court considers will—

        (a)     compensate the injured person, or any injured person, in whole or in part for the loss or damage; or

        (b)     prevent or reduce the loss or damage suffered, or likely to be suffered, by the injured person or any injured person.

    (4)     An application may be made under subsection (2) at any time within 6 years after the day on which the cause of action that relates to the conduct accrued.

    (5)     An application may be made under subsection (2) even if no other proceeding (whether criminal or civil) has been commenced under this Division in relation to the relevant conduct.

    (6)     The regulator must not make an application under subsection (2)(b) on behalf of an injured person who has not consented in writing to the making of the application on their behalf.

S. 121 inserted by No. 63/2017 s. 18.