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RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1992 - SECT 176

Compliance with permanent bans--civil penalties

Supply

  (1)   A person must not supply equipment of a particular kind to another person if:

  (a)   the other person intends to operate the equipment; and

  (b)   a permanent ban on equipment of that kind is in force.

Civil penalty:   1,000 penalty units.

Offer to supply

  (2)   A person must not offer to supply equipment of a particular kind to another person if:

  (a)   the other person intends to operate the equipment; and

  (b)   a permanent ban on equipment of that kind is in force.

Civil penalty:   1,000 penalty units.

Operation

  (3)   A person must not operate equipment of a particular kind if a permanent ban on equipment of that kind is in force.

Civil penalty:   1,000 penalty units.

Possession

  (4)   A person must not have equipment of a particular kind in the person's possession if:

  (a)   a permanent ban on equipment of that kind is in force; and

  (b)   the possession is for the purpose of:

  (i)   operating the equipment; or

  (ii)   supplying the equipment to another person who intends to operate the equipment.

Civil penalty:   1,000 penalty units.

  (5)   If:

  (a)   a person contravenes subsection   (1), (2), (3) or (4); and

  (b)   another person suffers loss or damage because of a reasonably foreseeable use (including a misuse) of the equipment;

the other person is taken, for the purposes of this Division, to have suffered the loss or damage because of the contravention.



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