Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person
who —
(a) with
intent to sell or supply the child pornography or the copy to another,
possesses or copies child pornography; or
(b)
sells or supplies, or offers to sell or supply, to another, child pornography,
is guilty of a crime,
and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
(2) A person who
publishes —
(a)
anything likely to be understood as conveying that the person publishes or
supplies child pornography; or
(b) an
advertisement for child pornography,
is guilty of a crime,
and is liable to imprisonment for 5 years.
(3) A person who
displays, exhibits or demonstrates child pornography is guilty of a crime, and
is liable to imprisonment for 5 years.
(4) A person who
possesses or copies child pornography is guilty of a crime, and is liable to
imprisonment for 5 years.
(5) In proceedings for
an offence against subsection (1), evidence that a person had possession
of, or made, 10 or more copies of an article that is child pornography is
evidence that the person intended to sell the child pornography and, in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, is proof of that fact.
(6) For the purposes
of subsection (2)(b), if a person publishes an advertisement for child
pornography at the request of another person, that other person alone must be
taken to have published it.
(7) A person liable to
imprisonment under this section may be sentenced to pay a fine of any amount
in addition to or instead of being sentenced to imprisonment.
[Heading inserted by No. 30 of 2003
s. 9.]