DO NOT CALL REGISTER ACT 2006 - SECT 46 Regulations

DO NOT CALL REGISTER ACT 2006 - SECT 46

    The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted to be prescribed by this Act; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

•   Unsolicited telemarketing calls must not be made to a number registered on the Do Not Call Register.

•   Unsolicited marketing faxes must not be sent to a number registered on the Do Not Call Register.

•   The main remedies for breaches of this Act are civil penalties and injunctions.

•   Unsolicited telemarketing calls must not be made to a number registered on the Do Not Call Register.

•   Agreements for the making of telemarketing calls must require compliance with this Act.

•   Unsolicited marketing faxes must not be sent to a number registered on the Do Not Call Register.

•   Agreements for the sending of marketing faxes must require compliance with this Act.

•   Pecuniary penalties are payable for contraventions of civil penalty provisions.

•   Proceedings for the recovery of penalties are to be instituted in the Federal Court or the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division   2).

•   The Federal Court or the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division   2) may grant injunctions in relation to contraventions of civil penalty provisions.