SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Minor and consequential amendments

Obscene Publications Act 1959 (c. 66)

106(1)Amend section 3 (powers of search, seizure and forfeiture) as follows.

(2)In subsection (1), omit “in the petty sessions area for which he acts,” and “in that area”.

(3)In subsection (3)—

(a)for “for the same petty sessions area as the justice who issued the warrant, and the justice before whom the articles are brought” substitute “in the local justice area in which the articles were seized, who”;

(b)for “for that petty sessions area” substitute “acting in that local justice area”.