SPAM ACT 2003

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART 1--INTRODUCTION

• 1 Short title  
• 2 Commencement  
• 3 Simplified outline  
• 4 Definitions  
• 5 Electronic messages  
• 6 Commercial electronic messages  
• 7 Australian link  
• 8 Authorising the sending of electronic messages  
• 9 Sending of electronic messages--carriage service providers  
• 10 Continuity of partnerships  
• 11 Extended meaning of use  
• 12 Crown to be bound  
• 13 Extension to external Territories  
• 14 Extra - territorial application  

PART 2--RULES--ABOUT SENDING COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MESSAGES

• 15 Simplified outline  
• 16 Unsolicited commercial electronic messages must not be sent  
• 17 Commercial electronic messages must include accurate sender information  
• 18 Commercial electronic messages must contain a functional unsubscribe facility  

PART 3--RULES--ABOUT ADDRESS-HARVESTING SOFTWARE AND HARVESTED-ADDRESS LISTS

• 19 Simplified outline  
• 20 Address - harvesting software and harvested - address lists must not be supplied  
• 21 Address - harvesting software and harvested - address lists must not be acquired  
• 22 Address - harvesting software and harvested - address lists must not be used  

PART 4--CIVIL--PENALTIES

• 23 Simplified outline  
• 24 Pecuniary penalties for contravention of civil penalty provisions  
• 25 Maximum penalties for contravention of civil penalty provisions  
• 26 Civil action for recovery of pecuniary penalties  
• 27 Criminal proceedings not to be brought for contravention of civil penalty provisions  
• 28 Ancillary orders--compensation  
• 29 Ancillary orders--recovery of financial benefit  
• 30 Schedule 3 (infringement notices)  

PART 5--INJUNCTIONS

• 31 Simplified outline  
• 32 Injunctions  
• 33 Interim injunctions  
• 34 Discharge etc. of injunctions  
• 35 Certain limits on granting injunctions not to apply  
• 36 Other powers of the Federal Court unaffected  

PART 6--ENFORCEABLE--UNDERTAKINGS

• 37 Simplified outline  
• 38 Acceptance of undertakings  
• 39 Enforcement of undertakings  
• 40 Assessment of compensation for breach of undertaking  

PART 7--MISCELLANEOUS

• 41 Formal warnings--breach of civil penalty provision  
• 42 Additional ACMA functions  
• 43 Operation of State and Territory laws  
• 44 Implied freedom of political communication  
• 45 Giving effect to international conventions  
• 47 Regulations  
• SCHEDULE 1 Designated commercial electronic messages
• SCHEDULE 2 Consent
• SCHEDULE 3 Infringement notices