Undesirable Publications Act · 2010 Revised Edition
4A. Any person who —
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
makes or reproduces;
imports or has in his possession for the purposes of sale, supply, exhibition or distribution to any other person; or
sells, offers for sale, supplies, offers to supply, exhibits or distributes to any other person, any obscene publication, not being a prohibited publication, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the publication to be obscene is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or both.
*Transferred from the Mentri Besar to the Minister of Home Affairs with effect from 1st January 1984 — [S 10/84]
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Offences involving objectionable publications. [S 60/07]
Terms defined in s 2
prohibited publication
Defined · s 2“prohibited publication” means any publication, the importation, sale or circulation of which has been prohibited under section 3;
publication
Defined · s 2“publication” means any of the following other than a film — (a) any book, magazine or periodical, whether in manuscript or final form; (b) any sound recording; (c) any picture or drawing, whether made by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever; (d) any photograph, photographic negative, photographic plate or photographic slide; or (e) any paper, model, sculpture, tape, disc, article or thing — (i) that has printed or impressed upon it any word, statement, sign or representation; or (ii) on which is recorded or stored for immediate or future retrieval any information that, by the use of any computer or other electronic device, is capable of being reproduced or shown as any picture, photograph, word, statement, sign or representation, and includes a copy of any publication;