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SPAM ACT 2003 - SECT 23 Simplified outline

SPAM ACT 2003 - SECT 23

Simplified outline

    The following is a simplified outline of this Part:

  Pecuniary penalties are payable for contraventions of civil penalty provisions.

  Proceedings for the recovery of penalties are to be instituted in the Federal Court.

  The Federal Court may make ancillary orders:

  (a)   directing the payment of compensation to a victim of a contravention of a civil penalty provision; and

  (b)   directing the payment to the Commonwealth of an amount up to the amount of any financial benefit that is attributable to a contravention of a civil penalty provision.

Note:   Schedule   3 sets up a system of infringement notices relating to contraventions of civil penalty provisions.