13.This section provides an exception from the touting offence for certain advertisers. The exception applies where the advertiser does not, and could not reasonably be expected to, know that the seller intends to sell the ticket for more than the ticket’s face value or make a profit as a result of the sale.
14.If, for example, a newspaper advert for Championship tickets displayed a sale price that was obviously in vast excess of the normal face value of tickets to comparable sporting events, the publication that carried that advert could not argue that it could not reasonably have known that the sales were for above face value. In which case the advertising publication would be committing a touting offence.
The Act Ticket touting Section 4: Exception for certain advertisers