Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A person shall not publish nor cause to be published a bogus advertisement, knowing the advertisement to be bogus.
Maximum penalty: $1 000, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) In subsection (1):
"bogus advertisement" means an advertisement or notice containing any statement or representation that is false or misleading in a material particular with respect to—
(a) any matter related to birth, death, engagement to be married, marriage, civil union, civil partnership or employment; or
(b) any matter concerning a person or the property of a person, other than the person who published the advertisement or caused it to be published.