Legislation administered by Consumer Affairs Victoria

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
   • Associations Incorporation Reform Regulations 2023 No. 116
   • Reporting Exemption Order for Incorporated Associations 2018
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)
   • Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Regulations 2012 No. 62
   • Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Code of Practice for Fuel Price Boards) Regulations 2016 No. 54
   • Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading (Infringements) Regulations 2018 No. 98
     
   • Competition and Consumer Regulations 2010

B

1. Business Licensing Authority Act 1998
   • Business Licensing Authority Regulations 2013 No. 31
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
   • Conveyancers (Fees) Regulations 2018 No. 61
   • Conveyancers (Professional Conduct) Regulations 2018 No. 63
   • Conveyancers (Qualifications and Experience) Regulations 2018 No. 60
   • Conveyancers (Trust Account and General) Regulations 2018 No. 62
5. Co-operatives National Law Application Act 2013 (containing the Co-operatives National Law)
   • Co-operatives National Regulations - NSW legislation website
   • Co-operatives National Law (Victoria) Local Regulations 2024 No. 9
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)
   • Domestic Building Contracts Regulations 2017 No. 18

E

1. Estate Agents Act 1980
   • Estate Agents (Professional Conduct) Regulations 2018 No. 49
   • Estate Agents (General, Accounts and Audit) Regulations 2018 No. 48
   • Estate Agents (Exemption) Regulations 2014 No. 189
   • Estate Agents (Retirement Villages) Regulations 2016 No. 86
   • Estate Agents (Fees) Regulations 2018 No. 82
   • Estate Agents (Education) Regulations 2020 No. 114

F

1. Fundraising Act 1998
• Fundraising Regulations 2019
• Fundraising Ministerial Exemption Order 2019 (PDF, 367KB)
• Fundraising Exemption Order 2002 - No.1 (PDF, 19KB)
• Fundraising Exemption Order 2010 - No. 2 (PDF, 7KB)
2. Funerals Act 2006
   • Funerals (Infringements) Regulations 2011 No. 71

G

1. Goods Act 1958

M

1.  Motor Car Traders Act 1986
• Motor Car Traders Regulations 2018 No. 94
• Motor Car Traders (Fees) Regulations 2018 No. 95

O

1. Owners Corporations Act 2006
   • Owners Corporations Regulations 2018 No. 154

P

1. Partnership Act 1958
   • Partnership (Fees) Regulations 2023 No. 55
2. Professional Engineers Registration Act 2019
   • Professional Engineers Registration (General, Exemption and Assessment Scheme Fees) Regulations 2021

R

1. Residential Tenancies Act 1997 
   • Sections.23A-25, 27, 32, 33, 45-48, 74-77, 82. 90, 91, 91 A, 102, 102A, 103, 104(1),104(4), 104(5), 104(6), 105(2), 105(2A), 105(3), 124, 128, 130-134, 141-142B, 142D-212, 213AA-215, 230, 232-234, 241, 277, 289A, 291-327, 329-333, 335-339, 341, 343-366, 373-376, 385, 388, 388A, 390, 390A, 395-398, 399A-439M, 480, 486-499, 501-504, 505A-5IOC
   • Section 66(1) this section is jointly administered with the Minister for Housing
   • Section 142C jointly and severally administered with the Minister for Housing
   • Part 12A and section 511 jointly and severally administered with the Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers, and the Minister for Housing
   • the Act is otherwise administered by the Attorney-General, the Minister for Housing and the Minister for Planning).
     • Residential Tenancies Regulations 2021
     • Residential Tenancies (Caravan Parks and Movable Dwellings Registration and Standards) Regulations 2020
     • Residential Tenancies (Rooming House Standards) Regulations 2023
2. Retirement Villages Act 1986
   
   • Retirement Villages (Contractual Arrangements) Regulations 2017 No. 67
   • Retirement Villages (Records and Notices) Regulations 2015 No. 147
   • Retirement Villages (Infringements) Regulations 2018 No. 188
     
3. Rooming House Operators Act 2016
   • Rooming House Operators Regulations 2017 No. 6

S

1. Sale of Land Act 1962 
   • Sale of Land (Exemption) Regulations 2020 No. 13
   • Sale of Land (Infringements) Regulations 2014 No. 115
   • Sale of Land (Public Auctions) Regulations 2014 No. 73
2. Second-Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act 1989
   • Second-Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers (General, Exemption and Record-Keeping) Regulations 2018 No. 64
   • Second-Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers (Fees) Regulations 2019
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)
   • Veterans (Patriotic Funds) Regulations 2017 No. 107

W

1. Warehousemen's Liens Act 1958