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Legal“The Australian Consumer Law is contained in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).”
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The conclusion
The claim matches the text of the legislation and official government descriptions. Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) is the Australian Consumer Law. Broader points about state application laws and enforcement provisions add context, but they do not change the correctness of the statement.
Caveats
- The claim is about where the ACL text is located, not the full legal framework for how it operates nationwide.
- State and territory application laws can affect how the ACL applies locally, but that does not change its location in Schedule 2.
- Enforcement and administration provisions are not all in Schedule 2; some sit elsewhere in the Act and related legislation.
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The endnotes provide details of the history of this legislation and its provisions. The Australian Consumer Law is contained in Schedule 2 to this Act.
The ACL is written in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. Its goal is to help Australians by supporting fair business practices, competition and fair trading.
Under the heading "Schedule 2 - The Australian Consumer Law" the ACCC states that this schedule deals with "misleading or deceptive conduct, unconscionable conduct, unfair practices, conditions and warranties, product safety and information, liability of manufacturers for goods with safety defects offences, country of origin representations." This identifies the Australian Consumer Law as Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, which the ACCC enforces.
This is a compilation of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 28 March 2026 (the compilation date). The Australian Consumer Law is set out in Schedule 2 to this Act.
Schedule 2—The Australian Consumer Law. Note: The Australian Consumer Law is a national consumer law set out in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
This is a compilation of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 1 ... ... Schedule 2—The Australian Consumer Law.
The main piece of legislation governing competition and consumer law in Australia is the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is contained in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
The object of this Act is to enhance the welfare of Australians through the promotion of competition and fair trading and provision for consumer protection. The Australian Consumer Law is set out in Schedule 2 of the Act.
If you sell goods or services in Australia, the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) – Schedule 2 – applies to you. Schedule 2 is the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). ... Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act is the Australian Consumer Law – it governs how you advertise, price, contract and provide remedies to customers.
The Western Australian Fair Trading Act 2010 provides that the Australian Consumer Law (WA) is a modified version of the Australian Consumer Law set out in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), applied as a law of Western Australia. This illustrates that while the text of the ACL originates in Schedule 2 of the federal Act, it is also enacted at state level.
Australian legal commentary and teaching materials consistently describe the Australian Consumer Law as being located in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). This is contrasted with earlier arrangements where consumer protection provisions were contained in Part V of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
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Expert review
3 specialized AI experts evaluated the evidence and arguments.
Expert 1 — The Logic Examiner
Multiple direct, primary and quasi-primary references explicitly state that “the Australian Consumer Law is contained/set out in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)” (e.g., Sources 1–3, 4–6), which straightforwardly entails the claim as a statement about where the ACL text is located within that Act. The opponent's objection shifts the scope from “where the ACL is contained” to “how the ACL operates and is applied/modified via state application Acts,” which does not negate the claim's narrow locational assertion and therefore does not logically refute it.
Expert 2 — The Context Analyst
The claim is accurate about where the ACL's core text is set out, but it omits that the ACL operates as a national scheme via state/territory application Acts (and can be modified as applied locally, e.g., ACL (WA)), and that enforcement/administration provisions sit outside Schedule 2 in the Competition and Consumer Act and in other Acts [10]. With that context restored, the statement “the Australian Consumer Law is contained in Schedule 2” remains substantively correct as a description of the location of the ACL text (as explicitly stated in the Act and government summaries) [1][2][3].
Expert 3 — The Source Auditor
The highest-authority sources in this pool — the Federal Register of Legislation (Source 1, a .gov.au primary legal source), consumer.gov.au (Source 2, official Australian Government), and the ACCC (Source 3, the federal regulator) — all explicitly and unambiguously confirm that the Australian Consumer Law is contained in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). This is further corroborated by a 2026 BarNet Jade legal compilation (Source 4), the University of Melbourne Library Guides (Source 7), and even the Western Australian government legislation source (Source 10), which itself acknowledges the ACL originates in Schedule 2 of the federal Act. The opponent's argument conflates the textual location of the ACL with the broader question of its multi-jurisdictional application — a distinction that does not undermine the literal truth of the claim, which is that the ACL is contained in Schedule 2, a fact confirmed by every credible source in the pool.
Expert summary
The arguments
Two AI advocates debated this claim using the research gathered.
Argument for
The claim is unambiguously true, as confirmed directly by the Federal Register of Legislation (Source 1), the highest-authority source available, which states explicitly: 'The Australian Consumer Law is contained in Schedule 2 to this Act.' This is further corroborated by an overwhelming consensus across multiple independent authoritative sources including the Australian Government's consumer.gov.au (Source 2), the ACCC (Source 3), a 2026 legal compilation on BarNet Jade (Source 4), and the University of Melbourne Library Guides (Source 7), all of which consistently and unambiguously confirm that the Australian Consumer Law is located in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).
The Proponent equivocates between the narrow proposition “the ACL's text is set out in Schedule 2” and the broader motion's implication that “the Australian Consumer Law” as an operative legal regime is wholly contained there, while ignoring that state and territory application Acts expressly apply (and can modify) that Schedule 2 text as local law—e.g., the Fair Trading Act 2010 (WA) applies a modified “Australian Consumer Law (WA)” derived from Schedule 2 (Source 10, Government of Western Australia - Legislation). Merely repeating the Federal Register's editorial description and similar summaries (Sources 1–3, 7) is an appeal to authority that does not rebut the structural point that the ACL's legal force and implementation depend on provisions outside Schedule 2 and outside the Commonwealth Act, making the motion's “contained in Schedule 2” framing materially misleading.
Argument against
The motion is misleading because it treats the Australian Consumer Law as a single, self-contained body “contained” only in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, yet the Western Australian Fair Trading Act expressly applies a modified “Australian Consumer Law (WA)” as state law, showing the operative ACL framework is not confined to the federal Schedule 2 text alone (Source 10, Government of Western Australia - Legislation). Moreover, the cited materials largely rely on the same simplified formulation (“set out in Schedule 2”) without demonstrating that all ACL rules and their legal force are exclusively located there rather than also depending on application/implementation provisions outside Schedule 2 and in state/territory Acts (Sources 1–3).
The Opponent commits a category error by conflating the location of the ACL's text with the broader question of its application across jurisdictions — the motion makes no claim that Schedule 2 is the exclusive source of all consumer law obligations in Australia, only that the Australian Consumer Law is contained there, which Sources 1 through 9 unanimously confirm. The existence of state-level application Acts such as the Western Australian Fair Trading Act (Source 10) actually reinforces the claim, as that very source explicitly acknowledges the ACL originates as 'Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth),' thereby corroborating rather than undermining the motion.