Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) A person shall 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) where there already exists a credit account or trading account relationship between that person and the other person; or
(c) in renewal or replacement of, 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.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units in the case of a person other than a corporation or 1 000 penalty units in the case of a corporation.
(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 shall not take any action that enables another person who has a prescribed card to use the card as a credit card or a debit card, as the case may be, except in accordance with a request in writing by that other person.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units in the case of a person other than a corporation or 1 000 penalty units in the case of a corporation.
(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.