Appeal against sex book rule
PA Hamilton Penguin Books has appealed against sales restrictions imposed on its teen-age sex education book “Make it Happy”. Book publishers will pay a quarter of the cost. The company’s managing director (Mr G. Beattie) said that an a ppeal had been lodged with the Supreme Court because of an Indecent Publications tribunal ruling that the book was indecent in the hands of persons aged under 16. The decision was based on the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act, which makes it an offence to “sell ... or otherwise supply instruc-
tion in the use of any contraception to any child under the age of 16.”
Mr Beattie said no date for a hearing had been set yet, but it would probably be in February.
He confirmed that the Book publishers’ Association had decided to meet up to 25 per cent of the cost, and that the Booksellers’ Association had voted $4OO towards the appeal. Both grants had been unsolicited, he said. The appeal was on the ground that the tribunal went outside its jurisidiction, and was therefore wrong in law, in invoking the Contraception. Sterilisation, and Abortion Act.
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