Have your say

Kaya and welcome to the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety's Consultation Hub. 

This hub is a place for you to participate in Consumer Protection’s and Building and Energy's public consultations.

Information about previous consultations and reports are available from the Consumer Protection and the Building and Energy websites.  

We thank you for your engagement and look forward to receiving your feedback.

Closed Activities

  • Retirement village resident consultation - proposed conduct rules and budget obligations

    The Retirement Villages Amendment Bill 2024 recently passed through Parliament. Consumer Protection is consulting in stages on changes to the Retirement Villages Regulations 1992 that will support changes to the Act. The new regulations are expected to be in place in the second half of 2025. We will be using short surveys to seek feedback from retirement village residents on various topics over the next 5 months. Each survey should take...

    Closed 21 November 2024

  • WA Fitness Industry Code of Practice review

    Feedback is now closed. Thank you to those who made a submission. Fitness service providers such as gyms and personal trainers are bound by rules set out in the WA Fitness Industry Code of Practice . The Fitness Code sets out rules for contract terms, payment methods and information a fitness client must receive. Changes in the Fitness Code were made in July 2021 to address common consumer issues such as sales tactics, membership agreement terms and termination of...

    Closed 5 January 2024

  • Prepaid Funerals Code

    Feedback is now closed. Thank you to those who made a submission. The Fair Trading (Prepaid Funerals Code of Practice) Regulations 2020 (Prepaid Funerals Code) prescribes requirements for prepaid funeral contracts in Western Australia and commenced operation on 1 March 2021. The purpose of the Prepaid Funerals Code is to impose requirements on the sellers of prepaid funerals to give consumers greater consistency, clarity and certainty when entering into a prepaid funeral...

    Closed 26 September 2023