South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person who,
without lawful authority, posts a bill on property is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) Where a bill is
posted without lawful authority, a person who distributed or authorised the
distribution of such bills for posting is guilty of an offence unless it is
proved—
(a) that
the person did not foresee and could not be reasonably expected to have
foreseen the likelihood that such bills would be posted unlawfully; or
(b) that
the person took reasonable precautions to ensure that such bills were not
posted unlawfully.
Maximum penalty: $2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(3) Where a person is
convicted of an offence against subsection (1) or (2), the court may
order the convicted person to pay to the owner or occupier of the property in
relation to which the offence was committed such compensation for damage
caused by the convicted person as the court consider just.
(5) In this
section—
"property" includes a building, structure, road, paved surface or object of
any kind.