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Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993

Offences - Offences involving objectionable or restricted publications

128: Circumstances when exhibition or display not an offence

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"When showing a publication is not against the law"

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You do not break the law if you show someone a publication for educational or professional purposes. This also applies if the Chief Censor tells you to show the publication. You can show the publication at the Classification Office.

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Part 8Offences
Offences involving objectionable or restricted publications

128Circumstances when exhibition or display not an offence

  1. Nothing in section 123 or section 124 applies to the exhibition or display, to any person, of any publication where the publication is exhibited or displayed to that person—

  2. for educational or professional purposes; and
    1. by or at the direction of the Chief Censor; and
      1. at premises occupied by the Classification Office.