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Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993

Offences - Miscellaneous provisions

140: Evidence of publication, etc

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"Using labels as proof in court"

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If you are accused of breaking a rule in the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, a statement on the publication or its package can be used as evidence. This statement can say who supplied, distributed, published, made, or copied the publication. You can argue against this evidence if you have proof to the contrary.

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Part 8Offences
Miscellaneous provisions

140Evidence of publication, etc

  1. Where, in the case of any prosecution for an offence against this Act or any regulations made under this Act, the publication that is the subject of the prosecution, or any package in which the publication is kept, contains or bears a statement that the publication was supplied, distributed, published, made, or copied by any person, that statement may be received as sufficient evidence of the fact so stated unless the contrary is proved.

Compare
  • 1963 No 22 s 24
  • 1987 No 85 s 56