Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) (Enforcement) Act 1995 - SECT 29

Sale of restricted publications to minors

29. Sale of restricted publications to minors



(1) A person must not sell or deliver to a minor a publication classified
Category 1 restricted or Category 2 restricted, unless the person is a parent
or guardian of the minor.

Penalty: 60 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) to
prove that the minor produced to the defendant acceptable proof of age before
the defendant sold or delivered the publication to the minor and the defendant
believed on reasonable grounds that the minor was an adult.