•       This Act sets up a scheme for regulating commercial e-mail and other types of commercial electronic messages.

•       Unsolicited commercial electronic messages must not be sent.

•       Commercial electronic messages must include information about the individual or organisation who authorised the sending of the message.

•       Commercial electronic messages must contain a functional unsubscribe facility.

•       Address-harvesting software must not be supplied, acquired or used.

•       An electronic address list produced using address-harvesting software must not be supplied, acquired or used.

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