Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:2:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 11/97)
Character Range: 1637714–1640294

activity with the sender; and
 (c) the child is someone who is, or who the sender believes to be, under 16 years of age; and
 (d) the sender is at least 18 years of age.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.
 (2) A person (the sender) commits an offence if:
 (a) the sender uses a carriage service to transmit a communication to another person (the recipient); and
 (b) the sender does this with the intention of making it easier to procure a person (the child) to engage in sexual activity with another person (the participant); and
 (c) the child is someone who is, or who the sender believes to be, under 16 years of age; and
 (d) the participant is someone who is, or who the sender believes to be, at least 18 years of age.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.
 (3) A person (the sender) commits an offence if:
 (a) the sender uses a carriage service to transmit a communication to another person (the recipient); and
 (b) the sender does this with the intention of making it easier to procure a person (the child) to engage in sexual activity with another person; and
 (c) the child is someone who is, or who the sender believes to be, under 16 years of age; and
 (d) the other person referred to in paragraph (b) is someone who is, or who the sender believes to be, under 18 years of age; and
 (e) the sender intends that the sexual activity referred to in paragraph (b) will take place in the presence of:
 (i) the sender; or
 (ii) another person (the participant) who is, or who the sender believes to be, at least 18 years of age.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.

474.27A  Using a carriage service to transmit indecent communication to person under 16 years of age
 (1) A person (the sender) commits an offence if:
 (a) the sender uses a carriage service to transmit a communication to another person (the recipient); and
 (b) the communication includes material that is indecent; and
 (c) the recipient is someone who is, or who the sender believes to be, under 16 years of age; and
 (d) the sender is at least 18 years of age.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (2) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), whether material is indecent is a matter for the trier of fact.
 (3) In this section:
indecent means indecent according to the standards of ordinary people.

474.28  Provisions relating to offences against this Subdivision

Age‑related issues—application of absolute liability
 (1) For the purposes of an offence against this Subdivision, absolute liability applies to the physical element of circumstance of the offence that:
 (a) in the case