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New Australian Consumer Law
The new Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No. 2) 2010 impacts on everyone - consumers, businesses, credit providers and anyone offering, selling, demanding, promising, etc anything in Australia. It's an uniform law and from 1 January 2011 it will eliminate all the differing state laws, mostly as implemented by Fair Trading offices.
Several important downloads:
- The full legislation (web page)
- Introduction PDF
- Guide to Provisions PDF
ASIC - Australian Securities & Investment Commission
Dun & Bradstreet (Australia) Pty Limited
World
Business Search - 2.3 million companies in 66 countries
Company Information and financial reports including searchable database of Top100
Find companies world-wide, browse by country
United States
Pogo.org - an independent non-profit organisation that exposes and makes available free to the public information about corruption and misconduct in the largest of America's government contractors.
Manta.com - find 45 million free company profiles covering large to small firms worldwide including Australia and their related industries and products.
BBB - Better Business Bureau - check businesses or lodge a complaints
Florida Department of State - full info
PublicData - access many records for a small fee
Department of Consumer Affairs license lookup - check licenses of many kind of professions and trades mainly in California, but relevant links to other states are included
Canada
Companies and Mutual Funds - SEDAR - searchable records
Search and access incorporation records - for all Canadian provinces and territories
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