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Unfair Contract Terms – FICA Submission

1 October 2021

While individual FICA members have provided their own detailed submissions, and these highlight several specific issues relevant to their membership, the purpose of this submission is to outline the key areas of common agreement between FICA members and suggested next steps.
Topics covered include:
– Introduction of civil penalties
– Flexible remedies – Rebuttable presumption
– Flexible remedies – Injunctions
– Existing remedies available under the UCT regime
– Definition of Small Business and Monetary Value of Contracts
– Transitional provisions

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