Part VII Obscenity and Pornography and Videos
Video recordings
88 Video recordings: increase in penalties.
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The following provisions of the M1Video Recordings Act 1984 (which create offences for which section 15(1) and (3) prescribe maximum fines of, in the case of sections 9 and 10, £20,000 and, in the case of other offences, level 5) shall be amended as follows.
2
In section 9 (supplying videos of unclassified work), after subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—
3
A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—
a
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both,
b
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £20,000 or both.
3
In section 10 (possessing videos of unclassified work for supply), after subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—
3
A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—
a
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both,
b
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding £20,000 or both.
4
In section 11 (supplying videos in breach of classification), after subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—
3
A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.
5
In section 12 (supplying videos in places other than licensed sex shops), after subsection (4), there shall be inserted the following subsection—
4A
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (3) above shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.
6
In section 14 (supplying videos with false indication as to classification), after subsection (4), there shall be inserted the following subsection—
5
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (3) above shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.
7
The amendments made by this section shall not apply to offences committed before this section comes into force.