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CityFitness Taupō is one of the chain's 66 clubs nationwide

Gym chain giant CityFitness has been ordered to pay $1.12 million fine after admitting they misled customers about membership fees.

The Commerce Commission said the country's largest gym business advertised the cheapest memberships at $6.99 a week and added 3 percent, which they called a transaction fee.

But the fee was compulsory and the Commission said the gym was therefore attracting new members with a publicised cost that did not exist.