Section 58FZN — Competition and Consumer Act 2010: Adverse publicity orders

Making adverse publicity orders (1) The Court may, on application, make an adverse publicity order against a person who has been ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty under an SPF civil penalty order. (2) Such an order may require the person to: (a) disclose, in the way and to the persons specified in the order, specified information that the person has possession of or access to; and (b) publish, at the person’s expense and in in a specified way, an advertisement in the terms specified in, or determined in accordance with, the order. Applying for adverse publicity orders (3) An application for such an order may be made by: (a) if the SPF civil penalty order was for a contravention of a civil penalty provision of an SPF principle—the SPF general regulator; or (b) if the SPF civil penalty order was for a contravention of a civil penalty provision of an SPF code for a regulated sector—the SPF sector regulator for the sector. Definitions (4) In this section: Court, in relation to a matter, means any court having jurisdiction in the matter.