Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854:section:132an
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 132AN
Character Range: 435386–436463

132AN  Causing work to be performed publicly

Indictable offence
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person causes a literary, dramatic or musical work to be performed; and
 (b) the performance is in public at a place of public entertainment; and
 (c) the performance infringes copyright in the work.
 (2) An offence against subsection (1) is punishable on conviction by a fine of not more than 550 penalty units or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both.
Note: A corporation may be fined up to 5 times the amount of the maximum fine (see subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914).

Summary offence
 (3) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person causes a literary, dramatic or musical work to be performed; and
 (b) the performance is in public at a place of public entertainment; and
 (c) the performance infringes copyright in the work and the person is negligent as to that fact.
Penalty: 120 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.
 (4) An offence against subsection (3) is a summary offence, despite section 4G of the Crimes Act 1914.