Delivery of prohibited publication to police station or magistrate’s office

(1) Any person, (a) to whom any publication, the importation of which has been prohibited under section 3 of this Act, or any extract there from, is sent without his knowledge or privity or in response to a request before the prohibition of the importation of such publication comes into effect; or (b) who has such a publication or extract there from in his possession at a time when the prohibition of its importation comes into effect, 6 shall forthwith if or as soon as the nature of its contents has become known to him, or in the case of publication or extract there from coming into his possession before an Order prohibiting the importation of such publication, deliver the publication or extract there from to the officer-in- charge of the nearest police station or magistrate’s office. (2) Any person who fails to comply with subsection (1) of this section, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction or indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to both, and such publication or extract therefrom shall be forfeited. (3) A person who complies with the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, or is convicted of an offence under that subsection shall not be liable to be convicted for having imported or having in his possession the same publication or extract there from.