Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts In this
Division —
code of practice means a code of practice, as
amended from time to time, that is approved and published under
section 100;
computer service means a service provided by or
through the facilities of a computer communication system
allowing —
(a) the
input, output or examination of computer data or computer programmes;
(b) the
transmission of computer data or computer programmes from one computer to
another; or
(c) the
transmission of computer data or computer programmes from a computer to a
terminal device;
objectionable material means —
(a) a
film classified RC, a computer game classified RC, or a publication classified
RC;
(b)
child pornography;
(c) an
article that promotes crime or violence, or incites or instructs in matters of
crime or violence; or
(d) an
article that describes or depicts, in a manner that is likely to cause offence
to a reasonable adult —
(i)
the use of violence or coercion to compel any person to
participate in, or submit to, sexual conduct;
(ii)
sexual conduct with or upon the body of a dead person;
(iii)
the use of urine or excrement in association with
degrading or dehumanizing conduct or sexual conduct;
(iv)
bestiality;
(v)
acts of torture or the infliction of extreme violence or
extreme cruelty;
restricted material means an article that a
reasonable adult, by reason of the nature of the article, or the nature or
extent of references in the article, to matters of sex, drug misuse or
addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena, would
regard as unsuitable for a minor to see, read or hear.
[Section 99 amended by No. 30 of 2003
s. 21.]