Indecent Advertisements Act 1889

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1889 c. 18
Year1889


Indecent Advertisements Act, 1889.

(52 & 53 Vict.) CHAPTER 18.

An Act to suppress Indecent Advertisements.

[26th July 1889]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Short title.

1 Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as theIndecent Advertisements Act, 1889.

S-2 Commencement of Act.

2 Commencement of Act.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

S-3 Summary proceedings against persons affixing, &c. indecent or obscene pictures or printed or written matter.

3 Summary proceedings against persons affixing, &c. indecent or obscene pictures or printed or written matter.

3. Whoever affixes to or inscribes on any house, building, wall, hoarding, gate, fence, pillar, post, board, tree, or any other thing whatsoever so as to be visible to a person being in or passing along any street, public highway, or footpath, and whoever affixes to or inscribes on any public urinal or delivers or attempts to deliver, or exhibits, to any inhabitant or to any person being in or passing along any street, public highway, or footpath, or throws down the area of any house, or exhibits to public view in the window of any house or shop, any picture or printed or written matter which is of an indecent or obscene nature, shall, on summary conviction in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, or, in the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month, with or without hard labour.

S-4 Summary proceedings against persons sending others to do the acts punishable under s. 3.

4 Summary proceedings against persons sending others to do the acts punishable under s. 3.

4. Whoever gives or delivers to any other person any such pictures, or printed or written matter mentioned in section three of this Act, with the intent that the same, or some one or more thereof, should be affixed, inscribed, delivered, or exhibited as therein mentioned, shall, on conviction in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, or, in the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.

S-5 Certain advertisements declared indecent.

5 Certain advertisements declared...

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