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High Court of Australia - Act 1974

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1QUESTION 1...................................................................................................................................1QUESTION 2...................................................................................................................................1QUESTION 3...................................................................................................................................2QUESTION 4...................................................................................................................................3QUESTION 5...................................................................................................................................3QUESTION 6...................................................................................................................................3QUESTION 7...................................................................................................................................4CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONThe Trade Practices Act (1974) defines various statutory provisions with relation todefining the rules and regulation which are to be followed by an organisation while acting inbusiness environment legally and ethically (Pearson, 2017). In order to reduce the legalcomplications in business developmental activities firm should take care of such legislation inorder to not to misled consumers. In this particular report the case law of ACCC vs TPG internetPty Ltd. is studied which defined the various provisions of TPA (1974).QUESTION 1The TPG Internet Pty Ltd. is engaged in delivering its communication services toconsumers. Firm is an internet provider and telecommunication services provider to the marketof Australia. The business entity introduced an scheme of providing internet and phoneconnection with maintaining ADLS2+ services. Australian Competition and ConsumerCommission (ACCC) filed a case because of false representation of TPG services in theiradvertisement campaign. The company is advertising less amount of charges for unlimitedinternet plan and while they are are charging higher amount than advertised as installation fee,telephonic charges and other hidden charges to customers. The 3 misleading animadverts of TPPalleged by ACCC are as follows:The TPG advertised that firm is providing unlimited downloading with ADSL2+ servicesonly for 29.99 dollars.It is found that business organisation is charging many of hidden charges over thisscheme plan of internet.The Internet pack is bundled with telephonic connection in home which cost for 30.00dollars per month (Corones, 2014).Following this customers have to pay 129 installation fee for telephone connection. Inorder top this customer have to pay in total 149.99 dollars to TPG company instead ofonly 29.99 dollars.QUESTION 2The statutory provisions are defined as legislation introduced by government in order todevelop ethical and legal actions in working of business corporation in country. These provisioncontrols over activities of companies engaged in any kind of fraud or deceptive actions in1
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