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In 1963 the book censorship system was reformed. All previous restrictions on books were lifted and the Indecent Publications Tribunal was created, the first organization in New Zealand whose primary purpose was book censorship. [1] Before this, there was no requirement for lists of banned books to be made public.
The English translations of Sholokhov's work were banned for "indecency". [167] Elmer Gantry: Sinclair Lewis: 1927 Novel Elmer Gantry was banned in the Irish Free State. [168] The House of Gold: Liam O'Flaherty: 1929 Novel The first book to be banned by the Irish Free State for alleged "indecency". Republished in 2013. [169] A Farewell to Arms ...
The Obscene Publications Act 1857 was one of the earliest censorious acts in New Zealand. Aimed at "works written with the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of nature calculated to shock the common feeling of decency in any well regulated mind", it laid out a process by which obscene works could be destroyed, but did not explicitly define what could be considered an obscene ...
List of books banned in New Zealand This page was last edited on 29 November 2024, at 21:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Office classifies material based on whether it is likely to be "harmful" or "injurious to the public good."Specifically: "a publication is objectionable if it describes, depicts, expresses, or otherwise deals with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of the publication is likely to be injurious to the public good."
Thousands of pages and hundreds of volunteers later, Beaufort County is closing the book on their material review process, ending with a review committee vote to ban a fifth book from schools ...
The following articles contain lists of prohibited books: Index Librorum Prohibitorum. List of authors and works on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum; List of books banned by governments. Book censorship in Canada; Book censorship in China; List of books banned in India; Book censorship in Iran; List of authors banned in Nazi Germany
New Zealand released its list of banned baby names for 2023. The country has strict naming laws. Prince, King, Bishop, Major and Royal were declined most often.