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CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ENFORCEMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 64

PART 6 - Call In Provisions Calling in submittable publication for classification

(1)  If –
(a) the Minister or Director has reasonable grounds to believe that a publication is a submittable publication; and
(b) the publication is being published in Tasmania or the Minister or Director has reasonable grounds to believe that it will be published in Tasmania –
the Minister or Director may, by notice given to the publisher of the publication, require the publisher to submit to the Board an application for classification of the publication, or of subsequent issues of the publication.
(2)  A person to whom a notice under subsection (1) is given must, within 3 business days after receiving the notice, comply with the notice.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(3)  It is a defence to a prosecution under subsection (2) to prove that the defendant did not intend –
(a) to publish the publication in Tasmania; or
(b) to cause, authorise, permit or license the publication to be published in Tasmania.



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