South Australia
Summary Offences (Ticket Scalping) Amendment Bill 2005
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Summary Offences Act 1953.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Summary Offences Act 1953
3	Insertion of section 11B
11B	Ticket scalping

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Summary Offences (Ticket Scalping) Amendment Act 2005.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Summary Offences Act 1953
3—Insertion of section 11B
After section 11A insert:
11B—Ticket scalping
	(1)	The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare an event to be an event to which this section applies.
	(2)	A person must not sell, or offer for sale, a ticket for admittance to an event to which this section applies at a price which exceeds the original ticket price by more than 10 per cent.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
Expiation fee: $315.
	(3)	This section does not apply to a ticket sold, or offered for sale, in prescribed circumstances.
	(4)	Nothing in this section will be taken to authorise the sale of a ticket on which is printed a condition prohibiting sale or transfer of the ticket.
	(5)	In this section—
event means a sporting event, concert or other entertainment for which tickets for admittance are sold by or on behalf of the event organisers;
original ticket price, in relation to a ticket for admittance to an event, means the price for which the ticket was purchased when first offered for retail sale by or on behalf of the event organisers (and includes, if a booking fee or other commission was payable to the ticket seller in relation to that sale, the amount of that fee or commission).