Public Order Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part 2
32. Importation, making etc. of subversive articles
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who imports, makes, prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale, issues, distributes, circulates or reproduces any subversive article is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years:
subversive article
"subversive article" means any article which contains any subversive matter and any article purporting to be a subversive article shall be presumed to be a subversive article until the contrary is proved.
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Provided that no person shall be convicted of an offence against this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that the article in respect of which he is charged was imported, made, printed, published, sold, offered for sale, issued, distributed, circulated or reproduced, as the case may be, without his authority, consent and knowledge, and without any want of due care or caution on his part, and that he did not know and had no reason to suspect the nature of the article.
article
"article" means any description of article containing or embodying matter to be read or looked at or both, any sound record, and any film, video cassette, photographic negative or other record of a picture;
Terms defined in s 2
article
Defined · s 2"article" means any description of article containing or embodying matter to be read or looked at or both, any sound record, and any film, video cassette, photographic negative or other record of a picture;
subversive article
Defined · s 2"subversive article" means any article which contains any subversive matter and any article purporting to be a subversive article shall be presumed to be a subversive article until the contrary is proved.