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INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS ACT 1889 - SECT 3

Summary proceedings against persons affixing, &c. indecent or obscene pictures or printed or written matter.

3. Whoever affixes to or inscribes on any house, building, wall, hoarding,
gate, fence, pillar, post, board, tree, or any other thing whatsoever so as to
be visible to a person being in or passing along any street, public highway,
or footpath, and whoever affixes to or inscribes on any public urinal, or
delivers or attempts to deliver, or exhibits, to any inhabitant or to any
person being in or passing along any street, public highway, or footpath, or
throws down the area of any house, or exhibits to public view in the window of
any house or shop, any picture or printed or written matter which is of an
indecent or obscene nature, shall, on summary conviction in manner provided by
the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, be liable to a penalty not exceeding [twenty
pounds], or, in the discretion of the Court to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding one month....


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