INDECENT EXHIBITIONS.
No. 3 of 1918. 2501
-1918.
No. 1 of 1918, incorporated in No. 5 of 1888.
No. 2 of 1918, repealed by Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.
No. 3 of 1918.
An Ordinance to prohibit exhibitions, publications, and advertisements of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or offensive nature.
[31st May, 1918.]
[Originally No. 3 of 1918. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Indecent Exhibitions Ordinance, 1918.
2. No person shall, on payment or gratuitously, expose to public view in or near any public place, any written or printed matter, or any picture, figure, or other thing, or any exhibition, which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or offensive nature.
3. No person shall publish in any newspaper, or by any other means distribute to the public, any matter which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or offensive nature.
4. Every advertisement whatsoever relating to syphilis, gonorrhoea, nervous debility, or other complaint or infirmity arising from or relating to sexual intercourse, shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be matter of an indecent nature: Provided that this section shall not apply to any advertisement in any bona fide medical newspaper, medical book, or other medical publication.
5. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
6.—(1) Whenever it appears to a magistrate upon the oath of any person that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any written or printed matter, or any picture, figure, or other thing...