Film Classification (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Film Classification (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 45 of 1991

An Act to amend the Film Classification Act 1971

[Notified in ACT Gazette S 95:   20 September 1991]

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 1991.

Principal Act

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

Interpretation

3.  Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:

“ ‘Chief Censor’ has the same meaning as in the Customs (Cinematograph Films) Regulations of the Commonwealth;”.

Insertion

4.  After section 4 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Exempt films

“4A.  (1) Subsection 4 (1) does not apply in relation to an exempt film.

“(2)  The Minister may, by instrument, declare that a film that has been exempted under subsection 38 (2) of the Film and Video Classification Act, 1984 of the State of New South Wales as amended and in force from time to time is an exempt film for the purposes of this section.

“(3)The Minister may delegate his or her power under subsection (2) to the Chief Censor.

“(4)  In this section, ‘exempt film’ means a film specified in a declaration under subsection (2).”.

Display of information about classification

5.  Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (5) the definition of “Chief Censor”.

NOTE

1.  Ordinance No. 25, 1971 as amended by No. 14, 1972; No. 10, 1974; No. 7, 1985; Nos. 8 and 21, 1989.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 15 August 1991]

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