Indecent Exhibitions.
CHAPTER 150.
INDECENT EXHIBITIONS.
[CAP. 150
To prohibit exhibitions, publications and advertisements of an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature.
[31st May, 1918.]
3 of 1918. Fraser
3 of 1918.
21 of 1949.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Indecent Exhibitions Ordinance.
Short title.
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.
Objectionable exhibitions.
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.
Objectionable publications.
4. Any 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.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 18, s. 5.
5. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
Penalties.
21 of 1949, s.2.
6. (1) Whenever it appears to a justice of the peace 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, which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature, is to be found in any building, vessel (not being a ship of war or a ship having the status of a ship of war) or other place, such justice of the peace may by warrant directed to any police officer empower him, with such assistants as may be necessary, by day or by night to enter and if necessary to break into or forcibly enter such building, vessel or other place and to search for and take possession of any written or printed matter, or any picture,
Search warrant.
21 of 1949, s.2.
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Indecent Exhibitions.
CHAPTER 150.
INDECENT EXHIBITIONS.
[CAP. 150
To prohibit exhibitions, publications and advertisements of Originally
an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature.
[31st May, 1918.]
3 of 1918. Fraser
3 of 1918.
21 of 1949.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Indecent Short title. Exhibitions Ordinance.
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2. No person shall, on payment or gratuitously, expose Objection- to public view in or near any public place any written or exhibitions. printed matter, or any picture, figure or other thing, or any exhibition, which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature.
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52 & 53 Vict. c. 18, s. 5.
4. Any advertisement whatsoever relating to syphilis, Certain gonorrhoea, nervous debility, or other complaint or infirmity ments 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. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions Penalties. of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable
to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six 21 of 1949, s.2. months.
warrant.
21 of 1949, s.2.
6. (1) Whenever it appears to a justice of the peace Search 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, which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature, is to be found in any building, vessel (not being a ship of war or a ship having the status of a ship of war) or other place, such justice of the peace may by warrant directed to any police officer empower him, with such assistants as may be necessary, by day or by night to enter and if necessary to break into or forcibly enter such building, vessel or other place and to search for and take possession of any written or printed matter, or any picture,
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