Censorship of Films (Amendment) Act, 1925

Offences in relation to prohibited advertisements.

4.—(1) Every person who shall display or cause to be displayed in public any pictorial poster, card, handbill, or other pictorial advertisement the display of which in public has been prohibited under this Act by the Official Censor shall be guilty of an offence under this section unless he establishes to the satisfaction of the court either that he did not know and could not reasonably have known of such prohibition or that he was informed by the person from whom he obtained the advertisement that no such prohibition existed.

(2) Every person who sells to another person for the purpose of display in public any pictorial poster, card, handbill or other pictorial advertisement the display of which in public has been prohibited under this Act by the Official Censor and does not at the time of the sale inform such other person of such prohibition shall be guilty of an offence under this section.

(3) Every person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine of five pounds for every day during which the offence continues.