New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING ACT 1991 - SECT 9

9 Conducting unlawful fundraising

(1) A person who conducts a fundraising appeal is guilty of an offence unless the person:

(a) is the holder of an authority authorising the person to conduct the appeal, or

(b) is a member of an organisation, or an employee or agent of a person or organisation, that holds such an authority and is authorised, by the person or organisation that holds the authority, to conduct the appeal, or

(c) is authorised under subsection (3) to conduct the appeal without an authority.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) A person who conducts a fundraising appeal in contravention of any condition attached to an authority authorising the appeal is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) The following may conduct a fundraising appeal without being the holder of an authority:

(a) an organisation or person, or one of a class of organisations or persons, authorised by the regulations,

(b) an organisation established by an Act and subject to the control and direction of a Minister,

(c) a member, employee or agent of any organisation or other person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) who is authorised by the organisation or other person to conduct the appeal,

(d) a person who, in accordance with section 11, conducts the appeal in conjunction with the holder of an authority.