Legislation administered by Consumer Affairs Victoria

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As Victoria’s consumer affairs regulator, we administer over 30 legislative schemes, including key areas such as:

  • Australian Consumer Law in Victoria under the one law, multiple regulator model
  • residential tenancies, including private rentals, caravan and residential parks, rooming houses and specialist disability accommodation
  • rooming house operators
  • conveyancers
  • domestic building
  • estate agents
  • owners corporations
  • professional engineers
  • sex work service providers
  • motor car traders
  • second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers
  • retirement villages
  • funeral providers
  • fundraisers
  • incorporated associations
  • cooperatives
  • limited partnerships.

Full list of Legislation

Access to the full text of the Acts listed below, and all Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary documents, is available at Victorian legislation.

Consumer Affairs Victoria does not warrant that the legislation links appearing below link directly to the latest version of each Act or Regulation. We recommend checking that the words "latest version" appear after the version number, or checking the Version history information.

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  M  O  P  R  S  T  V  W

A

  1. Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012
  2. Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012
    incorporating Volume 4, Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (known as the Australian Consumer Law)

B

  1. Business Licensing Authority Act 1998
  2. Business Names (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2011

C

  1. Chattel Securities Act 1987
  2. Company Titles (Home Units) Act 2013
  3. Consumer Credit (Victoria) Act 1995
  4. Conveyancers Act 2006
  5. Co-operatives National Law Application Act 2013 (containing the Co-operatives National Law)
  6. Credit Act 1984
  7. Credit (Administration) Act 1984
  8. Credit (Administration) Regulations 2014 No. 140
  9. Credit (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2010

D

  1. Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 (except Part 5, which is administered by the Attorney-General)

E

  1. Estate Agents Act 1980

F

  1. Fundraising Act 1998
  2. Funerals Act 2006

G

  1. Goods Act 1958

M

  1.  Motor Car Traders Act 1986

O

  1. Owners Corporations Act 2006

P

  1. Partnership Act 1958
  2. Professional Engineers Registration Act 2019

R

  1. Residential Tenancies Act 1997 
  2. Retirement Villages Act 1986
  3. Rooming House Operators Act 2016

S

  1. Sale of Land Act 1962 
  2. Second-Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act 1989
  3. Subdivision Act 1988
    • Part 5
    • Section 43 insofar as it relates to Part 5
    • The Act is otherwise administered by the Minister for Planning.

T

  1. Travel Agents Repeal Act 2014

V

  1. Veterans Act 2005 (Part 4 only; the rest of the Act is administered by the Minister for Veterans Affairs)

W

  1. Warehousemen's Liens Act 1958