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No. 3 of 1918.
INDECENT EXHIBITIONS.
1918.
No. 1 of 1918, incorporated in No. 5 of 1888.
No. 2 of 1918, repealed by No. 5 of 1924.
[Originally No. 3 of 1918.]
Short title.
Objectionable exhibitions.
Objectionable publications.
Certain advertisements declared indecent.
No. 3 of 1918.
An Ordinance to prohibit exhibitions, publications and advertisements of an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature.
[31st May, 1918.]
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 such or 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 bonâ fide medical newspaper, medical book or other medical publication. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 18, s. 5.
Penalties.
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.
1448
No. 3 of 1918.
INDECENT EXHIBITIONS.
1918.
No. 1 of 1918, incorporated in No. 5 of 1888.
No. 2 of 1918, repealed by No. 5 of 1924.
[Originally No. 3 of 1918.]
Short title.
Objection- able
exhibitions.
Objection- able publications.
Certain
advertise-
ments
declared
indecent.
No. 3 of 1918.
An Ordinance to prohibit exhibitions, publications and.
advertisements of an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature.
[31st May, 1918.]
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 such or 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 52 & 53 Vict. 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 bonâ fide medical newspaper, medical book or other medical publication.
c. 18, 8. 5.
Penalties.
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.
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