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4.
Objectionable exhibitions of human and other freaks are also
publicly shown for gain from time to time.
seems undesirable,
This practice also
6. It is true that it has been laid down that what outrages
public decency and is injurious to public morals is a misdemeanour
at common law (see the authorities quoted in Roscoe's Criminal
Evidence, 12th Edition, at p.701). Thus it has been held that
keeping a booth for the purpose of showing an indecent exhibition
which the public were invited to enter on payment, (B.v.Saunders,
1 Q.B.D. 15), and the exhibition by a herbalist of a man naked to
his waist and covered with sores, (R.v. Grey, 4 F. & F. 73), have
been held to be indictable offences. It is, however, doubtful
whether the common law misdemeanour would cover the case of some
of the objectionable medical advertisements. As it is advisable
to legislate for the particular case of medical advertisements it
has been thought convenient to deal at the same time with indecent
publications and exhibitions generally
6.
In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency
the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and
on His behalf.
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Attorney General.
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