Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854:section:248pd
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 248PD
Character Range: 896485–897639

248PD  Playing unauthorised recording publicly during 20‑year protection period

Indictable offence
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person causes a recording of a performance to be heard or seen in public; and
 (b) the recording is heard or seen in public during the 20‑year protection period of the performance; and
 (c) the recording is unauthorised.
 (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 recording of a performance to be heard or seen in public; and
 (b) the recording is heard or seen in public during the 20‑year protection period of the performance; and
 (c) the recording is unauthorised 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.