Indecent Publications Act Amendment Act 1967 (WA)

1967. ] Indecent Publications. [No. 6.

INDECENT PUBLICATIONS.

No. 6 of 1967.

AN ACT to amend the Indecent Publications

Act, 1902.

[Assented to 5th October, 1967.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Indecent and citation.

Publications Act Amendment Act, 1967.

(2) In this Act the Indecent Publications Act,

1902 is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Indecent Publications Act, 1902-1967.

No. 6.] Indecent Publications. [1967.

EC. 2

amended. 2.

Section two of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words, "Twenty pounds", in the third last line, the words, "two hundred dollars".

S.5

amended. 3.

Section five of the principal Act is amended by adding, after the word, "literary", where appear- ing in line two and in line seven, the passage, ", artistic or scientific", in each case.

S. 6

repealed and	4.	Section six of the principal Act is repealed
re-enacted.

and re-enacted as follows-

Limitation

on proceed-	6. (1) A prosecution shall not, without the this Act, for the printing, selling, publishing, distribution or exhibiting of a book or news- paper.
ings in
certain	authority of the Minister, be brought under
cases.
(2) An action shall not be brought against any person by reason, only, of his having, whether as a member of an advisory body or otherwise, expressed an opinion or tendered advice with respect to any work submitted to him or to any advisory body of which he is a member, under, or for the purposes of, any law of the Commonwealth, of this State or of any other State or any Territory of the Common- wealth, relating to publications. .