Section 147 — Competition and Consumer Act 2010: Unidentified manufacturer

(1) A person who: (a) wishes to institute a defective goods action; but (b) does not know who is the manufacturer of the goods to which the action would relate; may, by written notice given to a supplier, or each supplier, of the goods who is known to the person, request the supplier or suppliers to give the person particulars identifying the manufacturer of the goods, or the supplier of the goods to the supplier requested. (2) If, 30 days after the person made the request or requests, the person still does not know who is the manufacturer of the goods, then each supplier: (a) to whom the request was made; and (b) who did not comply with the request; is taken, for the purposes of the defective goods liability action (but not for the purposes of section 142(c)), to be the manufacturer of the goods.