Victorian Current Acts

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) (ENFORCEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 33

    (1)     A person must not exhibit or display for sale in a public place to which minors have access any publication or advertisement for a publication if any part of that publication or advertisement depicts or deals with nudity, sex, drug misuse, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting phenomena in a manner that a reasonable adult would consider unsuitable for general public display unless—

        (a)     that part of the publication or advertisement is concealed by a cover; or

        (b)     the publication or advertisement is displayed in a rack that conceals that part; or

        (c)     for some other reason that part of the publication or advertisement cannot be seen without being handled.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

S. 33(2) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 20.12).

    (2)     It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) to prove that the accused or the employee or agent of the accused took reasonable precautions to ensure that the publication or advertisement was not exhibited or displayed in contravention of subsection (1).

Part 4—Computer games

S. 34 amended by No. 36/2015 s. 15 (ILA s. 39B(1)).