HC Deb 04 December 1985 vol 88 c309

Mr. Churchill, supported by Mr. Jack Ashley, Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Mrs Virginia Bottomley, Mr. Mark Carlisle, Mr. Michael Cocks, Mr. Mark Fisher, Mr. Douglas Hogg, Mr. Greville Janner, Mr. David Lambie, Sir Ian Percival and Mr. Cyril Smith, presented a Bill to amend section 1 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 by removing the exemption of television and sound broadcasting and by making further provision with regard to the test of obscenity in the case of an article published in a place to which persons under eighteen years of age have access or an article disseminated through the medium of television or sound broadcasting; and to make a consequential provision: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 24 January and to be printed. [Bill 21.]