Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DESIGNS ACT 2003 - SECT 133

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person:

  (i)   places, or allows to be placed, words on the building in which the person's office or business is situated; or

  (ii)   uses words when advertising the person's office or business; or

  (iii)   places words on a document, as a description of the person's office or business; or

  (iv)   otherwise uses words in connection with the person's office or business; and

  (b)   the words are "Office for registering designs", or other words, that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the office or business is, or is officially connected with, the Designs Office; and

  (c)   the person knows or is reckless as to whether the person's office or business is, or is connected with, the Designs Office.

Penalty:   30 penalty units.

  (2)   Strict liability applies to paragraph   (1)(b).