South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts24—Defence relating to publication of advertisements
(1) In any proceedings
for an offence under this Part in relation to the publication of an
advertisement, it is a defence for a person to prove that the person carried
on the business of publishing or arranging for the publication of
advertisements and that the person published or arranged for the publication
of the advertisement in question in the ordinary course of that business.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply if the person—
(a)
should reasonably have known that the publication of the advertisement was an
offence; or
(b) had
previously been informed in writing by the relevant authority that publication
of such an advertisement would constitute an offence; or
(c) is
the proprietor of a food business or is otherwise engaged in the conduct of a
food business for which the advertisements concerned were published.