Serial Publications

   37. Serial publications---(1) Where it has been determined under this
 Act that no fewer than 3 issues of a serial publication that have been
 published within a period of not more than 12 months are objectionable
 or are restricted publications, the Classification Office may, where any
 issue of that publication is before the Classification Office for the
 purposes of this Part of this Act, make an order (in this section called
 a serial publication order) in respect of that serial publication.

   (2) The Classification Office shall not make a serial publication
 order the effect of which is that issues of a serial publication will be
 treated as objectionable, unless the Classification Office is satisfied
 that, having regard to the issues of that serial publication that have
 been classified as objectionable, issues of that serial publication that
 are published while the order is in force would be likely to be
 classified as objectionable.

   (3) Every serial publication order---
   (a) Shall show whether the issues of the serial publication to which
         it relates are to be treated as objectionable or as restricted
         publications and, in the latter case, particulars of the
         classification; and
   (b) Shall come into force on the day after the date of its entry in
         the register; and
   (c) Shall, unless sooner revoked, remain in force for such period, not
         exceeding 2 years, as is specified in the order; and
   (d) Shall apply to every issue of that serial publication that is
         published while the order is in force.

   (4) Where---
   (a) The Classification Office makes a serial publication order under
         which the issues of a serial publication are to be treated as
         restricted publications; and
   (b) The Classification Office has imposed conditions pursuant to
         section 27 of this Act in respect of any one or more issues of
         that serial publication (being issues on the basis of which that
         serial publication order is made),---

 the Classification Office may include, as part of the terms of that
 order, such conditions on the public display of the issues to which the
 order applies, or any advertising posters relating to those issues, or
 both, as it would be empowered to impose pursuant to that section if
 those issues were classified as restricted publications.

   (5) While any serial publication order is in force in respect of any
 serial publication, no person shall do any act or thing in relation to
 any issue to which the order applies (other than an issue that has been
 classified by the Classification Office or the Board) that would be an
 offence against any of sections 123 to 129 of this Act if that issue
 were an objectionable publication or a restricted publication, as the
 serial publication order may require.

   (6) Where, pursuant to subsection (4) of this section, the
 Classification Office, as part of any serial publication order, includes
 any condition on the public display of the issues to which the order
 applies, or any advertising posters relating to those issues, or both,
 then, while that serial publication order is in force in respect of that
 serial publication, no person shall do any act or thing in relation to
 any such issue or, as the case requires, any such advertising poster
 that would be an offence against section 130 of this Act if that issue
 were a restricted publication and that condition had been imposed
 pursuant to section 27 of this Act.

   (7) Nothing in subsection (6) of this section applies in respect of
 any issue that has been classified by the Classification Office or the
 Board.

   (8) The Classification Office may, on the application of any of the
 following persons, revoke or vary the terms of any serial publication
 order:
   (a) The applicant for the order:
   (b) The Secretary:
   (c) The owner, maker, publisher, or authorised distributor of the
         publication to which the order relates:
   (d) Any other person who satisfies the Chief Censor that the person is
         detrimentally affected by the existence of the order.
     Cf. 1963, No. 22, s. 15A; 1972, No. 136, s. 5