Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ENFORCEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 61

61 .         Sale or supply of submittable or RC publications

        (1)         A person must not sell or supply —

            (a)         a submittable publication; or

            (b)         a publication classified RC.

        Penalty: $15 000 or imprisonment for 18 months.

        (2)         It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1)(a) to prove that since the offence was alleged to have been committed the publication has been classified Unrestricted.

        (3)         It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) to prove that the accused believed on reasonable grounds that the publication was not a submittable publication or a publication classified RC, as the case may be.

        [Section 61 inserted by No. 30 of 2003 s. 9; amended by No. 84 of 2004 s. 82.]