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Advertising AtlasAustralia / Enforcement

Enforcement

Australia / TGA

Advertising therapeutic goods in a way that does not comply with the Advertising Code carries a criminal penalty of up to five years' imprisonment or 4,000 penalty units where harm or injury results or is likely, up to 12 months or 1,000 penalty units otherwise, a strict liability offence of 100 penalty units, and a maximum civil penalty of 5,000 penalty units for an individual and 50,000 for a body corporate.

広告コードに適合しない広告を行った者は、健康被害が生じるおそれがある場合には5年以下の拘禁もしくは4,000ペナルティユニット以下、それ以外でも12か月以下の拘禁もしくは1,000ペナルティユニット以下の刑事罰を受け、民事罰は個人5,000、法人50,000ペナルティユニットを上限とする。

Note
Contraventions continuing over more than one day are separate offences or contraventions. Section 42DL carries the same scale of penalties for the prohibited, restricted and Schedule 4 reference breaches. The dollar value of a penalty unit was not checked in this task.
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