The Competition and Consumer Point-in-Time Service has been updated to include the Treasury Laws Amendment (Professional Standards Schemes) Regulations 2026 (Cth) and the Competition and Consumer (Industry Code—Electricity Retail) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (Cth).

The Regulations give effect to decisions of the Professional Standards Councils to make the Association of Australian Certifiers Professional Standards Scheme and remake the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors, Strata Community Association (NSW) Limited, Australian Property Institute Valuers Limited and Association of Consulting Surveyors National professional standards schemes. As part of its remake, the Association of Consulting Surveyors National Professional Standards Scheme has been renamed the Surveyors Australia Professional Standards Scheme. There are no significant differences between the remade schemes and their previous versions.

• emphasising that retailers must make the SSO ‘available’ to eligible customers;
• including civil penalties to provisions that require retailers to offer the SSO, and to receive consent from a customer before onboarding them onto the SSO; and
• relocating the compliance and enforcement provisions for the SSO into Part 2 of the Electricity Retail Code to ensure the ACCC retains all compliance and enforcement functions.

These amendments have been updated in the Point-in-Time Competition and Consumer Service current to 17 August 2026. (NB: Subscription required).

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