Example sentences of "[art] obscene [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed . |
| 2 | Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr ( Subject of a celebrated prosecution in 1967 under the Obscene Publications Act ) , LAST EXIT is a tough , often harrowing film about life in a rough working class district of New York during the Korean War . |
| 3 | Each of these three events involved the legal process or changes in the law , and as such inevitably make the censorship issue in libraries less localized than it used to be even after the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 . |
| 4 | This is particularly so in the area of obscene or indecent publications , where , interestingly , some of the older legislation ( e.g. part of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876 , now incorporated in the Customs & Excise Act 1952 ) is invoked instead of the new legislation ( e.g. the Obscene Publications Act 1964 ) , partly because some of this more recent legislation has become less effective in securing convictions . |
| 5 | Intentionally or not he seems to suggest , as Lord Caithness also did at the Committee stage in the House of Commons , that the homosexual literature should pass the test of artistic and literary merit — characteristics which are necessary as a defence against a charge of obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . |
| 6 | Section 28 calls to mind the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 and the subsequent Hicklin case of 1868 , which together still underpin modern legislation on obscenity . |
| 7 | It may seem improper to juxtapose the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 with Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 , but the perception of homosexuality as obscenity is so widespread and homosexual literature continues to be seized and prosecuted under the various indecency laws , that it is not inappropriate to recall the Hicklin case in the present context . |
| 8 | It is interesting to note that Asheim 's exhortation to judge the book as a whole in book selection pre-dates the text of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 which demanded that : |
| 9 | The Obscene Publications Act 1959 had exempted theatre , cinema , and broadcasting from the provisions of the Act , since all were subject to formal regulation by public authorities . |
| 10 | The test of obscenity laid down in the Obscene Publications Act 1959 derives from the common-law offence of obscene libel , which rests on |
| 11 | The Law Commission had strongly recommended in its 1976 Report on Conspiracy and Criminal Law Reform that cinema films should be brought within the scope of the Obscene Publications Act , since Parliament 's supposition that ‘ such exhibitions … are most unlikely … to be prosecuted ’ had already proved unfounded . |
| 12 | In such circumstances , it seemed surprising that the Report should recommend the repeal of the Obscene Publications Act and consequent decriminalisation of all forms of publication other than those narrowly defined as causing actual harm to performers , whilst urging for films , and films alone , the continuation of an administrative system of prior restraint . |
| 13 | In the ‘ Oz ’ case , the Appeal Court ruled , in effect , that for the purposes of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 the word ‘ obscene ’ meant , and meant only , ‘ a tendency to deprave and corrupt . ’ |
| 14 | In 1989 a Private Member 's Bill attempted to bring television under the Obscene Publications Act , while widening the legal definition of obscenity . |
| 15 | The year after this Act was passed , Tory MP Winston Churchill tried to extend the scope of the Obscene Publications Act so that it would apply to television . |
| 16 | Mr Major was told by Tory Ann Winterton that the 300 MPs and peers who viewed the material had been ‘ deeply shocked by what they saw ’ and were demanding an urgent review of the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 17 | Thus for both groups the major legislative changes of the period — the Obscene Publications Act , the Sexual Offences Act , the Street Offences Act , the Abortion Act , the Theatres Act — are significant for their ‘ permissive ’ or ‘ liberalising ’ character . |
| 18 | This ‘ legislative moment ’ incorporating all the major changes which Hall places under the title ‘ legislation of consent ’ , lasted roughly from 1959 ( Wolfenden , and the Obscene Publications Act ) to 1968 ( end of theatre censorship and the Wootton Report on drugs ) . |
| 19 | Also in the list and discussed below are : Alex Comfort and Dr Martin Cole in the area of sex education , John Calder the publisher , John Trevelyan the erstwhile film censor , Roy Jenkins , Labour Home Secretary in the 1960s , as well as John Mortimer , the barrister , novelist and playwright , and what Mrs Whitehouse referred to as his ‘ travelling circus of expert witnesses ’ who were regularly in court to defend publications charged under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 20 | And they have too readily assumed that legislative changes , such as the Obscene Publications Act , 1959 , the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 , the Abortion Act , 1967 and others , are sufficient evidence in support of the second , that the rules governing behaviour changed . |
| 21 | Films , whether shown in public cinemas or cinema clubs , were brought within the scope of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . |
| 22 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 23 | Blackburn No. 3 ( C.A. , 1973 ) it was alleged that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner had issued an illegal policy directive in ordering his men not to enforce the provisions of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . |
| 24 | The Well of Loneliness , a courageous and serious novel about lesbianism , was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , condemned as an obscene libel , and was not republished in Britain until 1949 . |
| 25 | Before then the office came alive with two pieces of news : Sniffy Wilson had been captured and Marilyn Duxbody had been charged under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 26 | Obscenity , the more serious crime , is punished by the Obscene Publications Act 1959 , either after a trial by judge or jury or by " forfeiture proceedings " under a law which authorises local justices to destroy obscene books and films discovered within their jurisidiction . |
| 27 | Television was subjected to the Obscene Publications Act in 1990 , although it is difficult to imagine how obscene material could slip through these controls . |
| 28 | The Obscene Publications Act of 1959 was the result . |
| 29 | Public cynicism about obscenity control was confirmed when twelve members of Scotland Yard 's " dirty squad " were jailed after conviction for involvement in what their judge described as " an evil conspiracy which turned the Obscene Publications Act into a vast protection racket " . |
| 30 | The complete statutory definition of obscenity is contained in s1 of the Obscene Publications Act : For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , in all the circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |