Section 233C of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Test of obscenity

(1) An article shall be deemed to be obscene for the purposes of this Chapter if its effect taken as a whole is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it.

[1961 No. 51.]

(2) The provisions of this section of this Code shall extend to any article of two or more distinct items the effect of anyone of which is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt; but nothing in this section shall apply to exhibitions in private houses to which the public are not admitted or to anything done in the course of television or sound broadcasting.

Section 233C of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria

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