Spam Act 2003 (Section 1.3)

• This Act sets up a scheme for regulating commercial e‑mail and other types of commercial electronic messages.

• Unsolicited commercial electronic messages must not be sent.

• Commercial electronic messages must include information about the individual or organisation who authorised the sending of the message

• Commercial electronic messages must contain a functional unsubscribe facility.

• Address‑harvesting software must not be supplied, acquired or used.

• An electronic address list produced using address‑harvesting software must not be supplied, acquired or used.

• The main remedies for breaches of this Act are civil penalties and injunctions.