•   This Act sets up a scheme for regulating commercial email and other types of commercial electronic messages.

•   Unsolicited commercial electronic messages must not be sent.

•   Commercial electronic messages must include information about the individual or organisation who authorised the sending of the message.

•   Commercial electronic messages must contain a functional unsubscribe facility.

•   Address - harvesting software must not be supplied, acquired or used.

•   An electronic address list produced using address - harvesting software must not be supplied, acquired or used.

•   The main remedies for breaches of this Act are civil penalties and injunctions.