Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

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CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES ACT - SECT 102

Display of sexual articles

102. Display of sexual articles

(1) A person who conducts or is employed in a business involved in the sale or distribution of sexual articles must not:

(a) display a sexual article in a public place; or

(b) permit a sexual article to be displayed in a public place; or

(c) display a sexual article so that it can be seen from a public place.

Fault elements:

(a) intentionally displaying the article or permitting the article to be displayed; and

(b) for paragraph (c) - knowledge that, or recklessness as to whether, the article can be seen from a public place.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) that the display of the sexual article was only to a person who requested that the article be displayed to the person or consented to the display.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the display of a sexual article for the sole purpose of carrying on a prescribed business.



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