COLLECTIONS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACT 1939 - SECT 7
COLLECTIONS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACT 1939 - SECT 7
7—Disclosure requirements for collectors—entertainments
(1) This section
applies to an entertainment if—
(a) a
charge is made for admission to the entertainment; and
(b) it
is held out that the proceeds, or part of the proceeds, of the entertainment
are to be devoted to a charitable purpose.
(3) If any speaker or
other performer at an entertainment to which this section applies is to be
paid a fee or commission of an amount that exceeds, or is likely to exceed,
the prescribed amount, the holder of the section 6 licence under which a
person is authorised to conduct the entertainment must, at the request of any
person, tell the person the amount, or likely amount, of any such fee or
commission.
Maximum penalty: $8 000.
(4) For the purposes
of subsection (3), the value of any non-monetary consideration to be
provided to a person (including the value of any travel or accommodation costs
to be paid in respect of the person's attendance at the relevant
entertainment) must be taken into account in determining the amount of the fee
or commission that is to be paid to the person.
(5) A person who
conducts an entertainment to which this section applies must not cause or
permit an advertisement relating to the entertainment to be published by
radio, television, newspaper or in any other way or a ticket for admission to
the entertainment to be sold unless the advertisement or ticket contains the
following information:
(a) the
name of, and contact details for, the holder of the section 6 licence
under which the person is authorised to conduct the entertainment;
(ab)
—
(i)
in the case of the holder of a section 6 licence
that has previously submitted a statement under
section 15(2)(b)—particulars of the website maintained by the
Minister under section 15(6) or any other website at which the last such
statement submitted by the holder of that licence can be inspected; or
(ii)
in the case of a Commonwealth registered entity taken to
hold a section 6 licence for the purposes of this Act that has submitted
information under section 15(9)—particulars of the website
maintained by the Commonwealth Commissioner under the Commonwealth Act or any
other website at which the last such information submitted by the entity can
be inspected;
(b) if
subsection (3) applies—a statement indicating that performers
payment details can be obtained from the holder of the section 6 licence;
(c) any
other information prescribed by regulation.
Maximum penalty: $8 000.
(6) In this
section—
"prescribed amount" means—
(a) if
an amount is prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this
definition—that amount;
(b) if
no amount is prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this
definition—$5 000.