Section 280 - Publication or sale of obscene material

A person who publishes or offers for sale an obscene book, writing or representation, commits a misdemeanour.

Illustrations

1. A publishes a book for the use of physicians or surgeons, or for persons seeking medical or surgical information. Whatever may be the subject with which the book deals, if they are treated with as much decency as the subject admits, A has not committed a criminal offence.

2. B publishes extracts from the book mentioned in the last illustration, arranged or printed in a manner that gives unnecessary prominence to indecent matters. If the Court or jury is of the opinion that the publication is calculated unnecessarily and improperly to excite passion, or to corrupt morals, B ought to be convicted.