Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ENFORCEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 88

88 .         Sale or supply of certain computer games to minors

        (1)         A person must not sell or supply to a minor who is under 15 years of age a computer game classified MA 15+ unless the person is a parent or guardian of the minor.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         It is a defence to a charge of an offence against subsection (1) for the person charged to prove that the person charged or that person’s employee or agent believed on reasonable grounds that the minor was 15 years of age or older.

        (3)         A person must not supply to a minor a computer game classified RC or an unclassified computer game which would, if classified, be classified RC.

        Penalty: $15 000 or imprisonment for 18 months.

        [Section 88 amended by No. 30 of 2003 s. 14 and 41(2); No. 10 of 2006 s. 25.]