CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 440 Prosecutions for blasphemy

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 440

No person shall be liable to prosecution in respect of any publication by him or her, orally or otherwise, of words or matter charged as blasphemous, if the publication is by way of argument, or statement, and not for the purpose of scoffing or reviling, nor of violating public decency, nor in any way tending to a breach of the peace.