Film Classification (Amendment) Act 1989 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Film Classification (Amendment) Act 1989

No. 8 of 1989

An Act to amend the Film Classification Act 1971

[Notified in ACT Gazette S18:  11 August 1989]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Film Classification (Amendment) Act 1989.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Film Classification Act 1971.1

Display of information about classification

3.  Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from subsection (2) all the words after “image that” and substituting “bears the determined markings displayed in the determined form and manner”;

(b)by omitting from subsection (3) all the words after “matter” (second occurring) and substituting—

“bears the determined markings in relation to the film displayed—

(a)in the determined form and manner in relation to that type of advertising matter; and

(b)so that they are clearly visible, having regard to the size and nature of the advertising matter”; and

(c)by adding at the end the following subsections:

“(4)  The Chief Censor shall determine, by notice published in the Gazette—

(a)markings for the purposes of this section; and

(b)the form and manner of display of those markings—

(i)for the purposes of subsection (2)—in the relevant image of the film; and

(ii)for the purposes of subsection (3)—in the relevant advertising matter, in relation to different types of advertising matter;

in relation to different classifications under the State Act.

“(5)  In this section—

‘Chief Censor’ means the person appointed as such under the Customs (Cinematograph Films) Regulations made and in force from time to time under the Customs Act 1901 of the Commonwealth;

‘determined form and manner’, in relation to a film, or to advertising matter in relation to a film, means the form and manner determined, under paragraph (4) (b) in relation to the classification given to that film;

‘determined markings’, in relation to a film, means the markings determined under paragraph (4) (a) in relation to the classification given to that film.”.

Repeal

4.  Section 9 of the Principal Act is repealed.

NOTE

1. Ordinance No. 25, 1971, as amended by No. 14, 1972; No. 10, 1974; No. 7, 1985; No. 21, 1989.

[Minister’s presentation speech made in Assembly on  29 June 1989.]

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