Clause 50

by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph:“(a)sells, lets to hire, distributes, transmits by electronic means, publicly exhibits or in any manner puts into circulation, or for purposes of sale, hire, distribution, transmission, public exhibition or circulation, makes, produces, or has in his possession any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, painting, representation or figure, or any other obscene object whatsoever;”;

by inserting, immediately after the word “exports” in paragraph (b), the words “, transmits by electronic means”;

by inserting, immediately after the word “produced,” in paragraph (c), the words “transmitted by electronic means,”; and

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsections:“(2) For the purposes of this section, “object” includes data stored in a computer disc, or by other electronic means, that is capable of conversion to images, writing or any other form of representation.(3) For the purposes of this section and section 293, an object shall be deemed not to be obscene if the sale, letting to hire, distribution, exhibition, circulation, import, export or conveyance of, or any other dealing in, the object is authorised by or under any written law.”.