CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ENFORCEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 101

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ENFORCEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 101

101 .         Objectionable material, offences as to

        (1)         A person must not use a computer service to —

            (a)         transmit an article knowing it to be objectionable material; or

            (b)         obtain possession of an article knowing it to be objectionable material; or

            (c)         demonstrate an article knowing it to be objectionable material; or

            (d)         advertise that objectionable material is available for transmission; or

            (e)         request the transmission of objectionable material knowing it to be objectionable material.

        Penalty: $15 000 or imprisonment for 18 months.

        (2)         It is a defence to a charge of an offence against this section to prove that the article concerned is —

            (a)         an article of recognized literary, artistic or scientific merit; or

            (b)         a bona fide medical article,

                and that transmitting, obtaining possession of, demonstrating, advertising, or requesting the transmission of, the article is justified as being for the public good.

        [Section 101 amended: No. 30 of 2003 s. 41(2).]