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Recent reform to unfair contract terms laws
Amendments to the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), contained in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (CCA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) (ASIC Act) were passed in October 2022 to the effect that making a standard form contract which contains unfair terms, or relying on an unfair term is now illegal.