Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian 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) 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.
(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 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 the other person.
(4) In this
section —
article includes a token, card and document;
credit card means an article of a kind commonly
known as a credit card or a similar article intended for use in obtaining
cash, goods or services on credit, and includes an 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.