Offences involving objectionable publications 12.​ Any person who — makes or reproduces, or makes or reproduces for the purposes of sale, supply, exhibition or distribution to any other person; imports or has in his possession for the purposes of sale, supply, exhibition or distribution to any other person; or sells, offers for sale, supplies, offers to supply, exhibits or distributes to any other person, any objectionable publication (not being a prohibited publication) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the publication to be objectionable shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both. [8B [  9​ /98]​ Search for and seizure of obscene or objectionable publications  13. —​(1) If information is given upon oath to a Magistrate that there is reasonable cause to suspect that there are in any premises or place any obscene or objectionable publications (not being prohibited publications) by means of or in relation to which any offence under ​section 11​ or ​12​ has been or is about to be committed, or any equipment used or intended to be used for the purpose of exhibiting, making or reproducing those publications, the Magistrate may issue a warrant under his hand by virtue of which any police officer, controller or authorised officer named in the warrant may — with such assistance and by such force as is necessary, enter and search the premises or place; seize the publications and any equipment used in the exhibition, making or reproduction of those publications; and take into custody any person reasonably believed to be in possession of those publications or equipment.