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CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) (ENFORCEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 59

Advertising of objectionable material etc.

    (1)     A person must not—

        (a)     publish an advertisement or notice; or

        (b)     transmit, or make available for transmission, on an on-line information service an advertisement or notice; or

        (c)     knowingly allow an on-line information service to be used for publishing or transmitting, or making available for transmission, an advertisement or notice—

that objectionable material is available for on-line computer access.

Penalty:     240 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.

S. 59(2) inserted by No. 72/2012 s. 20.

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) makes it an offence for—

        (a)     any member or officer of a law enforcement agency; or

        (b)     a person authorised in writing by the Chief Commissioner of Police who is assisting a member or officer; or

        (c)     a person belonging to a class of persons authorised in writing by the Chief Commissioner of Police who is assisting a member or officer—

to do anything referred to in subsection (1) in the exercise or performance of a power, function or duty conferred or imposed on the member or officer by or under this or any other Act or at common law.

Part 7—Call–in provisions



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