Undesirable Publications Act · 2010 Revised Edition
5. Delivery of prohibited publication to police
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person —
to whom any prohibited publication or any extract therefrom is sent without his knowledge or privity or is sent in response to a request made by such person before the prohibition of the importation, sale or circulation of such publication came into effect;
prohibited publication
“prohibited publication” means any publication, the importation, sale or circulation of which has been prohibited under section 3;
or
who has such a publication or extract therefrom in his possession at the time when the prohibition of its importation, sale or circulation comes into effect, shall forthwith, as soon as the nature of its contents has become known to him, or in the case of a publication or extract therefrom coming into the possession of such person before an order prohibiting its importation, sale or circulation has been made upon the coming into effect of such order, deliver such publication or extract therefrom to a police officer not below the rank of
publication
“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;
Inspector or to the officer in charge of a police station and in default thereof is guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $2,000 and imprisonment for one year.
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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;