Comment by Kelly@lemmy.world on Games featuring paid loot boxes will soon receive a mandatory 'M' rating in Australia

Penalties will vary between states but for NSW the maximum fines for selling games with restricted classifications to underage customers are:

.	MA15+	R18+
sold by individual	$5.5k	$11k
sold by corporation	$11k	$22k

These seem steep enough to encourage compliance.

But G, PG, or M? The customers age is none of their business and I wouldn’t expect them to take an interest.

Edit: to put those penalties in perspective the sentencing for supplying alcohol to minors scales up a maximum of $11k and/or 12 months incarceration.
https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/la2007107/s117.html

While for tobacco the maximum penalties are:

.	first offence	subsequent offences
sold by individual	$11k	$55k
sold by corporation	$55k	$110k

So it looks like it is penalized significantly more lightly than alcohol or tobacco.

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