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CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ENFORCEMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 88B

Transitional provisions (2005 amendments)

(1)  The amendments made to the definition of " contentious material " in section 3 and to sections 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 77A by the Justice and Related Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2005 apply to the doing of things on or after the commencement of those amendments.
(2)  A film that, immediately before the commencement of the amendments made by the Justice and Related Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2005 to the provisions specified in subsection (1) , had a classification of a type specified in column 2 of an item in the following table is, for the purposes of applying the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act 1995 after that commencement, to be taken to have, and to have had at all times before that commencement when it had that classification, the classification of the type specified opposite it in column 3 of that item.

Table – Film classifications

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item

Former type of classification

New type of classification

1. 

MA

MA 15+

2. 

R

R 18+

3. 

X

X 18+

(3)  A computer game that, immediately before the commencement of the amendments made by the Justice and Related Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2005 to the provisions specified in subsection (1) , had a classification of a type specified in column 2 of an item in the following table is, for the purposes of applying the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act 1995 after that commencement, to be taken to have, and to have had at all times before that commencement when it had that classification, the classification of the type specified opposite it in column 3 of that item.

Table – Computer game classifications

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item

Former type of classification

New type of classification

1. 

G (8+)

PG

2. 

M (15+)

M

3. 

MA (15+)

MA 15+



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