Remedies

(1) The consumer has the right, under the conditions of section 32(1), first sentence, to instruct an association recognised under section 15(3) of the Act on Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, or a body under section 3(1), first sentence, no. 1 of the Injunctions Act, to lodge, in the consumer's name or in the consumer's stead, remedies under the Code of Administrative Court Procedure against the notice addressed to the consumer under section 32(3), or against its omission. The right of representation under the first sentence also applies before the Higher Administrative Court and the Federal Administrative Court. Where associations or bodies under the first sentence act in place of consumers, they may also conduct the litigation themselves before the Higher Administrative Court and the Federal Administrative Court. Before the Federal Administrative Court they must act through persons qualified to hold judicial office.
(2) Associations recognised under section 15(3) of the Act on Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, or bodies under section 3(1), first sentence, no. 1 of the Injunctions Act, may, without their own rights being infringed, lodge remedies under the Code of Administrative Court Procedure against a notice addressed to them, or against its omission, where they assert that
1. a provision of this Act or a provision of the statutory instrument issued under section 3(2) is infringed, and
2. the infringement under no. 1 concerns their statutory area of responsibility. They may also conduct the litigation themselves before the Higher Administrative Court. Subsection (1), fourth sentence applies accordingly.