20. Appeals
Feedback & supportAny person aggrieved by the detention of any article or publication under section 15 or 16 may appeal against such detention to the Minister whose decision shall be final and shall not be called in question in any court.
publication
“publication” means any of the following other than a film:(a)any book, magazine or periodical, whether in manuscript or final form;(b)any sound recording;(c)any picture or drawing, whether made by computer graphics or otherwise howsoever;(d)any photograph, photographic negative, photographic plate or photographic slide;(e)any paper, model, sculpture, tape, disc, article or thing —(i)that has printed or impressed upon it any word, statement, sign or representation; or(ii)on which is recorded or stored for immediate or future retrieval any information that, by the use of any computer or other electronic device, is capable of being reproduced or shown as any picture, photograph, word, statement, sign or representation,and includes a copy of any publication;
No appeal under subsection (1) shall be allowed unless notice of appeal in writing together with the reasons for the appeal is given to the Minister within 14 days of the date of service of the notification referred to in subsection (3).
A controller or an authorised officer shall notify the addressee or consignee of any article detained under section 15 or the person from whom any publication has been seized and detained under section 16 of his right to appeal under subsection (1).
controller
“controller” means a person appointed under section 18(1) by the Minister to be a controller;
A notification given by a controller or an authorised officer under subsection (3) may be given personally or may be served by post and the day on which a notification which has been posted would be received in the ordinary course of post shall be deemed to be the date of service of the notification.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, no article or publication shall be destroyed under section 15 or 16 unless its detention has not been appealed against or an appeal against its detention has been dismissed or abandoned.