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c. 421

1981 CHAPTER 42 An Act to make fresh provision with respect to the public display of indecent matter; and for purposes connected therewith.

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:—

1.—(1) If any indecent matter is publicly displayed the person making the display and any person causing or permitting the display to be made shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any matter which is displayed in or so as to be visible from any public place shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be publicly displayed.

(3) In subsection (2) above, “public place”, in relation to the display of any matter, means any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access (whether on payment or otherwise) while that matter is displayed except—
 * (a) a place to which the public are permitted to have access only on payment which is or includes payment for that display; or
 * (b) a shop or any part of a shop to which the public can only gain access by passing beyond an adequate warning notice;