Western Australian Current Acts

EDUCATION SERVICE PROVIDERS (FULL FEE OVERSEAS STUDENTS) REGISTRATION ACT 1991 - SECT 39

39 .         Advertisements promoting education services, restrictions as to

        (1)         A person who publishes or causes to be published any statement which is intended to promote any education service and which states, either expressly or by implication that the Minister or any other Minister or a department of the Government has approved, or has refrained from disapproving, the statement or any material particular in the statement or any claim made in the statement or any education service described in any manner in the statement commits an offence unless the Minister has consented in writing to its publication.

        (2)         In subsection (1) —

        published includes —

            (a)         inserted in any newspaper or other publication published in Western Australia or elsewhere; or

            (b)         publicly exhibited —

                  (i)         in, on, over or under any building, vehicle, or place (whether a public place or private place, and whether on land or water); or

                  (ii)         in the air, in view of persons being or passing in or on any public place;

                or

            (c)         contained in any document gratuitously sent or delivered to any person or thrown or left upon premises in the occupation of any person; or

            (d)         made verbally to any person; or

            (e)         publicly announced by means of transmission of light or sound,

        and publishes has a corresponding meaning.