Clause 61

No person shall, in the course of any trade or business, import, manufacture, sell, offer for sale or let for hire any unauthorised decoder.

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $40,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and any unauthorised decoder shall be forfeited to the Authority.

Proof that a person has, in the course of any trade or business, imported, manufactured, sold, offered for sale or let for hire any unauthorised decoder shall be evidence that such person knew that the decoder was an unauthorised decoder.

For the purposes of this section —

“decoder” means any apparatus or component part thereof which is designed or adapted to enable (whether on its own or with any other apparatus) an encrypted audio or visual programme to be decoded;

“unauthorised decoder” means a decoder which will enable encrypted audio or visual programmes to be viewed in decoded form without payment of the subscription payable in respect of the right to view those programmes.