Competition Act, 1998 (Act No. 89 of 1998)

Regulations

Purchase

Factors and benchmarks for determining whether a trading condition may be deemed unfair include the following:

(a)	The trading condition unreasonably transfers risks or costs onto a firm in the designated class of suppliers;

(b)	the trading condition is one-sided, onerous or not proportionate to the objective of the clause (such as unduly long payment terms); or

(c)	the trading condition bears no reasonable relation to the objective of the supply agreement.