OBSCENITY IN LITERATURE
Bill To Prevent Publication
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 21*
The publication of obscene matter will be punishable in Britain by penalties of up to £2OOO, or a maximum of three years’ imprisonment, if a private Parliamentary bill published today becomes law. The measure—the Obscene Publications Bill—was introduced by Mr Roy Jenkins, a Labour member.
■ It aims to strengthen the law against pornographic publications in accordance with recommendations that were made to an official committee of inquiry by police and Home Office officials. Mr Jenkins’s bill says that any publication shall be deemed to be obscene “if its effect as a whole is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons to whom or among whom it is likely to be distributed. circulated. sold, offered for sale, or let on hire.” But the Courts, in deciding whether or not a publication is obscene, would consider any evidence as to its literary, artistic, scientific or other merits.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28752, 25 November 1958, Page 12
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