Sedition Act · 2019 Revised Edition
Section 8
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No person shall be convicted of an offence under section 4(1)(c) or (d)
if the person proves that —
the publication in respect of which he is charged was printed, published or caused to be published, sold, offered for sale, distributed, reproduced, imported or propagated, as the case may be, without his authority, consent and knowledge and without any want of due care or caution on his part; or
publication
“publication” includes all written or printed matter and everything, whether of a nature similar to written or printed matter or not, containing any visible representation, or by its form, shape, or in any manner capable of suggesting words or ideas, and every copy and reproduction of any publication;
he did not know and had no reasonable ground to believe that the publication had a seditious intention.
Terms defined in s 2
publication
Defined · s 2“publication” includes all written or printed matter and everything, whether of a nature similar to written or printed matter or not, containing any visible representation, or by its form, shape, or in any manner capable of suggesting words or ideas, and every copy and reproduction of any publication;