Definitions

Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) "advertisement" includes any word, letter, model, sign, placard, board, notice, device or representation, whether illuminated or not, in the nature of and employed wholly or in part for the purposes of advertisement, announcement or direction;
2. (b) "obscene and objectionable" means any advertisement which is indecent, or is likely to deprave or corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, or is a gross violation of decency or morality;
3. (c) "place open to public view" includes any private place or building, monument, statue, post, wall, fence, tree or contrivance visible to a person while in or passing along any public place;
4. (d) "poster" includes any printed, typed or written notice, bill, placard or scaffold;
5. (e) "public place" means any place (including a road, street, way or other place, whether a thoroughfare or not, and a landing place) to which the public are granted access or have a right to resort or over which they have a right to pass.