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INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS ACT 1889

INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS ACT 1889 - LONG TITLE

An Act to suppress Indecent Advertisements.
[26th July 1889]
Short title.

INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS ACT 1889 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited as the Indecent Advertisements Act, 1889.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1908

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....

INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS ACT 1889 - SECT 4
Summary proceedings against persons sending others to do the Acts
punishable under s.3.

4. Whoever gives or delivers to any other person any such pictures,
or printed or written matter mentioned in section three of this
Act, with the intent that the same, or some one or more thereof,
should be affixed, inscribed, delivered, or exhibited as therein
mentioned, shall, on conviction in manner provided by the Summary
Jurisdiction Acts, be liable to a penalty not exceeding [fifty
pounds], or, in the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding three months....

INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS ACT 1889 - SECT 5
Certain advertisements declared indecent.

5. Any advertisement relating to syphilis, gonorrhoea, nervous
debility, or other complaint or infirmity arising from or relating
to sexual intercourse, shall be deemed to be printed or written
matter of an indecent nature within the meaning of section three of
this Act, if such advertisement is affixed to or inscribed on any
house, building, wall, hoarding, gate, fence, pillar, post, board,
tree, or other thing whatsoever, so as to be visible to a person
being in or passing along any street, public highway, or footpath,
or is affixed to or inscribed on any public urinal, or is
delivered or attempted to be delivered to any person being in or
passing along any street, public highway, or footpath.

[Provided that this section shall not apply to advertisements affixed
or inscribed as aforesaid by reason of their relating to any
venereal disease, if they are so affixed or inscribed for a local
or public authority or for a person publishing them with the
sanction of the Ministry of Health and Social Services.]

INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS ACT 1889 - SECT 6
Constables may arrest on view of offence.

6. Any constable or other peace officer may arrest without warrant
any person whom he shall find committing any offence against this
Act.

S.7 rep. by SLR 1908