Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person must not
use a computer service to —
(a)
transmit an article knowing it to be objectionable material;
(b)
obtain possession of an article knowing it to be objectionable material;
(c)
demonstrate an article knowing it to be objectionable material;
(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 by No. 30 of 2003
s. 41(2).]