Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES ACT - SECT 105

(1) A person must not employ a child in a restricted publications area.

Fault element: Recklessness in relation to the circumstance that the person employed is a child.

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

(2) The manager of a restricted publications area must not allow a child to enter the area.

Fault element: Absolute liability offence.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (2) if the defendant proves that:

(a) the child produced to the defendant acceptable proof of age before the child was admitted to the area; and

(b) the defendant believed, on reasonable grounds, that the child was an adult.

(4) The manager of a restricted publications area must not exhibit or allow the exhibition of a film classified R 18+ or X 18+ in the area except by way of a slot-machine operated by a coin or token.

Fault elements:

(a) intentionally exhibiting the film or knowledge that the film is exhibited (or recklessness as to that fact); and

(b) knowledge that, or recklessness as to whether, the film is classified R 18+ or X 18+.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.