3Simplified outline

#### 3 Simplified outline The following is a simplified outline of this Act: • 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. > Note: The Telecommunications Act 1997 contains additional provisions about commercial electronic messages. Those provisions include Part 6 (industry codes and standards), Part 26 (investigations), Part 27 (information‑gathering powers) and Part 28 (enforcement).