Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 - SECT 90UA

Removing scam mail on Australia Post's initiative

  (1)   Australia Post may remove a batch of articles from the normal course of carriage if it is reasonable to suspect that the batch consists of, or contains, scam mail.

  (2)   If a batch of articles is removed from the normal course of carriage under subsection   (1), Australia Post must notify one or more of the following agencies of its removal, as soon as is practicable after its removal:

  (a)   the ACCC;

  (b)   the Australian Securities and Investments Commission;

  (c)   the consumer protection agency for the State or Territory in which the batch of articles has been removed from the normal course of carriage;

  (d)   another agency that is prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of the definition of consumer protection agency in section   90E.

Removing scam mail on request of consumer protection agencies

  (3)   Australia Post may remove batches of articles of a particular kind from the normal course of carriage if:

  (a)   a consumer protection agency gives written notice to Australia Post that:

  (i)   articles of that kind may be in the course of post; and

  (ii)   the articles may consist of, or contain, scam mail; and

  (b)   the consumer protection agency provides Australia Post with a means of identifying the articles.

  (4)   If a batch of articles is removed from the normal course of carriage on the request of a consumer protection agency under subsection   (3), Australia Post must notify the consumer protection agency of its removal as soon as is practicable after its removal.