CAP. 63 Penal Code [Rev. 2012] (5) The purposes for which the Board is established shall be— (a) to review all publications prohibited under this section as at the commencement of this subsection and advise the Minister as to whether such prohibition should be lifted; and (b) to advise the Minister generally on the exercise of his powers under this section. (6) The Minister shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the commencement of this subsection, cause a copy of each of the publications referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (5) to be considered by the Board pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph. (7) The Minister shall, within twenty-one days of the prohibition of any publication under this section, cause a copy thereof to be forwarded to the Board for consideration and appropriate advice. (8) The Minister shall be obliged to act in accordance with any advice given by the Board under this section. (9) The quorum for the conduct of a meeting of the Board shall be four members. (10) Subject to subsection (9), the Board may regulate its own procedure. (11) There shall be a secretary of the Board and such other staff as may be necessary for the proper functioning of the Board. (12) The secretary and other staff of the Board shall be public officers appointed by the Minister for that purpose. (13) The expenses of the Board shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament for that purpose. [Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 11, Act No. 21 of 1966, First Sch., Act No. 10 of 1969, Sch., Act No. 10 of 1997, Sch., Act No. 12 of 2012, Sch.] 53. Penalty for prohibited publications (1) Any person who, otherwise than in his capacity and in the course of his duties as a public officer, prints, makes, imports, publishes, sells, supplies, offers for sale or supply, distributes, reproduces or has in his possession or under his control any prohibited publication is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years: Provided that no person who— (i) forthwith on the importation of a publication being prohibited under section 52 of this code, or on the declaration of a publication as a prohibited publication, as the case may be, delivers to the nearest administrative officer or to the police officer in charge of the nearest police station all copies of the publication in his possession or under his control; or (ii) by reason of its being sent or delivered to him without his knowledge or privity or in response to a request made by him before the importation thereof was prohibited, or before the declaration of the publication as a prohibited publication, as the case may be, comes into possession or control of a prohibited publication, and who, forthwith on the nature of its contents becoming known to him, [Issue 1] P6-33