Objectionable Literature Act Amendment Act of 1967 (Qld)

171 QIiU1 15Ic' TIC4 ANNO SEXTO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 27 of 1967 An Act to Amend " The Objectionable Literature Act of 1954 ," in a certain particular [ASSENTED TO 3RD NOVEMBER, 1967] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. (1) Short title . This Act may be cited as " The Objectionable Literature Act Amendment Act of 1967." (2) Principal Act. " The Objectionable Literature Act of 1954," is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) Collective title . The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively cited as " The Objectionable Literature Acts, 1954 to 1967,"

172 Objectionable Literature Act Amendment Act of 1967, No. 27 2. New s. 19A. The Principal Act is amended by inserting after section nineteen the following section:- " [ 19A.] Protection of members of National Literature Board of Review . No action shall be brought in Queensland against any person who is or at any time was a member of the National Literature Board of Review established for the purposes of the Commonwealth Act known as the Customs Act1901 as amended by subsequent Acts in respect of any opinion expressed by him as a member of such Board upon any book, pamphlet, magazine or periodical submitted for the opinion of such Board for the purposes of the said Commonwealth Act or of this Act or any other enactment of this State relating to blasphemous, indecent or obscene literature or of the law of any other State or a Territory of the Commonwealth relating to blasphemous, indecent or obscene literature."