Singapore legislation

Section 7

of Undesirable Publications Act 1967

Section 7

Delivery of prohibited publication to police station

(1)

Any person —

(a)

to whom any prohibited publication or any extract therefrom is sent without his knowledge or privity or is sent in response to a request made by that person before the prohibition of the importation, sale or circulation of such publication came into effect; or

(b)

who has such a publication or extract therefrom in his possession at the time when the prohibition of its importation, sale or circulation comes into effect,shall forthwith, as soon as the nature of its contents has become known to him, or in the case of a publication or extract therefrom coming into the possession of that person before an order prohibiting its importation, sale or circulation has been made upon the coming into effect of that order, deliver such publication or extract therefrom to the officer in charge of a police station.

(2)

Any person who fails to comply with subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

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