Offences Part 5
Specific offences Division 2
Section 50
Division 2—Specific offences
50 Advertisements
(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person publishes or displays an advertisement or notice,
or causes or permits an advertisement or notice to be
published or displayed; and
(b) the advertisement or notice is published or displayed
(whether or not to the public):
(i) in a newspaper or other publication; or
(ii) by television or radio; or
(iii) by display of notices, signs, labels, show cards or goods;
or
(iv) by distribution of samples, circulars, catalogues, price
lists or other material; or
(v) by exhibition of pictures, models or films; or
(vi) in any other way; and
(c) the advertisement indicates, or could reasonably be
understood as indicating, an intention to do an act; and
(d) that act would be unlawful under Part 4.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
Note:
Complaints can be made to the Commission about conduct that is an
offence under this subsection (see the definition of unlawful
discrimination in subsection 3(1) of the Australian Human Rights
Commission Act 1986, and section 46P of that Act).
(2) Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(c).
Note:
For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
51 Victimisation
Victimisation—actual detriment
(1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
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