South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts71—Unsolicited credit and debit cards
(1) A person must not
send a prescribed card to another person except—
(a) in
pursuance of a request in writing by the person who will be under a liability
to the person who issued the card in respect of the use of the card; or
(b) in
renewal or replacement, or in substitution for—
(i)
a prescribed card of the same kind previously sent to
that other person in pursuance of a request in writing by the person who was
under a liability to the person who issued the card previously so sent in
respect of the use of that card; or
(ii)
a prescribed card of the same kind previously sent to
that other person and used for a purpose for which it was intended to be used.
(2)
Subsection (1) applies only in relation to the sending of a
prescribed card by or on behalf of the person who issued the card.
(3) A person must not
take any action that enables a person who has a credit card or a debit card to
use the card as a debit card or a credit card, as the case may be, except in
accordance with a request in writing by that person.
(4) In this
section—
"article" includes a token, card or document;
"credit card" means any article of a kind commonly known as a credit card or
any similar article intended for use in obtaining cash, goods or services on
credit, and includes any article of a kind commonly issued by persons carrying
on business to customers or prospective customers of those persons for use in
obtaining goods or services from those persons on credit;
"debit card" means an article intended for use by a person in obtaining access
to an account held by the person for the purpose of withdrawing or depositing
cash or obtaining goods or services;
"prescribed card" means a credit card, a debit card or an article that may be
used as a credit card and a debit card.