Ticket resale advertising
11 Ticket resale advertising
The owner of an advertising publication must ensure that no prohibited advertisement is published in the publication.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $20 000.
It is a defence to a charge of an offence under subsection (1) to prove that —
the advertisement was received by the person charged, or by a person acting on that person’s behalf, in the ordinary course of carrying on the business or undertaking associated with the advertising publication; and
the agreement relating to the publication of the advertisement between the person charged and the person placing the advertisement was subject to terms or conditions prohibiting the publication of prohibited advertisements; and
the person charged, or a person responsible for managing the advertising publication on that person’s behalf, as soon as practicable after becoming aware that the prohibited advertisement had been published in the publication, took reasonable steps to ensure that the advertisement was removed from the publication; and
the person charged took such other steps as were reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that no prohibited advertisement was published in the publication.
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