Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ENFORCEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 63

63 .         Possession or copying of submittable publications with intention of selling

        (1)         A person must not possess or copy a submittable publication with the intention of selling the publication or the copy.

        Penalty: $15 000 or imprisonment for 18 months.

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

        (3)         In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1), evidence that a person had possession of, or made, 10 or more copies of a submittable publication is evidence that the person intended to sell the publication and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is proof of that fact.

        [Section 63 inserted by No. 30 of 2003 s. 9.]