Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SPAM ACT 2003 - SECT 6

Basic definition

             (1)  For the purposes of this Act, a commercial electronic message is an electronic message, where, having regard to:

                     (a)  the content of the message; and

                     (b)  the way in which the message is presented; and

                     (c)  the content that can be located using the links, telephone numbers or contact information (if any) set out in the message;

it would be concluded that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the message is:

                     (d)  to offer to supply goods or services; or

                     (e)  to advertise or promote goods or services; or

                      (f)  to advertise or promote a supplier, or prospective supplier, of goods or services; or

                     (g)  to offer to supply land or an interest in land; or

                     (h)  to advertise or promote land or an interest in land; or

                      (i)  to advertise or promote a supplier, or prospective supplier, of land or an interest in land; or

                      (j)  to offer to provide a business opportunity or investment opportunity; or

                     (k)  to advertise or promote a business opportunity or investment opportunity; or

                      (l)  to advertise or promote a provider, or prospective provider, of a business opportunity or investment opportunity; or

                    (m)  to assist or enable a person, by a deception, to dishonestly obtain property belonging to another person; or

                     (n)  to assist or enable a person, by a deception, to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage from another person; or

                     (o)  to assist or enable a person to dishonestly obtain a gain from another person; or

                     (p)  a purpose specified in the regulations.

             (2)  For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(d) to (l), it is immaterial whether the goods, services, land, interest or opportunity exists.

             (3)  For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(d) to (l), it is immaterial whether it is lawful to acquire the goods, services, land or interest or take up the opportunity.

             (4)  Any of the following:

                     (a)  the supplier or prospective supplier mentioned in paragraph (1)(f) or (i);

                     (b)  the provider or prospective provider mentioned in paragraph (1)(l);

                     (c)  the person first mentioned in paragraph (1)(m), (n) or (o);

may be the individual or organisation who sent the message or authorised the sending of the message.

             (5)  Paragraphs (1)(d) to (p) are to be read independently of each other.

             (6)  Subsection (1) has effect subject to subsection (7).

Excluded messages—regulations

             (7)  The regulations may provide that a specified kind of electronic message is not a commercial electronic message for the purposes of this Act.

Interpretation

             (8)  An expression used in paragraph (1)(m) of this section and in section 134.1 of the Criminal Code has the same meaning in that paragraph as it has in that section.

             (9)  An expression used in paragraph (1)(n) of this section and in section 134.2 of the Criminal Code has the same meaning in that paragraph as it has in that section.

           (10)  An expression used in paragraph (1)(o) of this section and in section 135.1 of the Criminal Code has the same meaning in that paragraph as it has in that section.