Sentences with phrase «obscene publications»

The Obscene Publications Acts 1959 (OPA 1959) and 1964 (OPA 1964) currently apply to internet content.

The police's obscene publications squad has been on a visit (encouraged by some newspaper coverage apparently) and had to close down part of the show, a red room containing a text and an appropriated photograph of naked 10 - year - old Brooke Shields, taken originally in the Seventies by ad photographer Gary Gross.

The Metropolitan police said: «Officers from the obscene publications unit met with staff at Tate Modern... The officers have specialist experience in this field and are keen to work with gallery management to ensure that they do not inadvertently break the law or cause any offence to their visitors.»

It has been removed from display after a visit to Tate Modern by officers from the obscene publications unit of the Metropolitan police.

[8][9] The Metropolitan Police Clubs and Vice Unit visited the exhibition before it opened, but could find insufficient evidence to bring a prosecution in respect of any of the exhibits under the Obscene Publications Act.

«Although it is nominally designed to enforce the [Obscene Publications Act] guidelines of the Crown Prosecution Service, in practice it draws far tighter lines, many of them inexplicable.

In the intervening period it's an issue which has been subject to numerous pieces of legislation regulating access to pornographic material in all its forms, from the Licensing Act 1737 (for plays) to the Obscene Publications Acts and the Video Recordings Act 1984.

Not exact matches

While ordinary sex films are probably not deemed to be obscene, any publication a dominant characteristic of which is the...

It held that the reverse onus provisions of the Customs Act, which required book importers to prove that a publication was not obscene, was unconstitutional.

Under OPA 1959, s 2 (1) simple possession of offending material will be illegal if it is an obscene article for publication for gain.