Censorship of Publications Act, 1967

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Expiration of certain prohibition orders.

2.—(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a prohibition order made on the ground that a book is indecent or obscene shall cease to have effect on the 31st day of December following the expiration of the period of twelve years beginning on the date on which the order takes effect unless it is sooner revoked by the Appeal Board under section 8 of the Act of 1946.

(2) A prohibition order of the kind mentioned in subsection (1) made more than twelve years before the date of the passing of this Act shall expire on the seventh day after that date unless it is sooner revoked by the Appeal Board under the said section 8.

(3) In any case where two or more prohibition orders of the kind mentioned in subsection (1) are in force in respect of a book (whether the book is referred to by the same title in all the prohibition orders or otherwise), each of the orders shall cease to have effect on the date on which, by virtue of this section, the order first made ceases to have effect.