the date and time when the appeal is to be heard;
(c) may determine the procedure to be followed;
(d) may call upon any person who in his or her opinion is an expert on any
matter relevant to the appeal, including any person who has experience
in or knowledge of any matter referred to in section 6(4), to give
assistance to the Review Board.
(3) The Review Board may refuse the appeal and confirm the decision in
question, or allow the appeal, either wholly or in part, and give such
decision
as the Board or executive committee should in its view have given, and amend
the classification of the publication or film, specifying the clause of
Schedule 1 or 6 upon which the classification is in terms of its decision
based,
and may impose other conditions in respect of the distribution or exhibition
of
the publication or film: Provided that the classification, as so amended, and
the conditions so imposed, shall not be more restrictive than the
classification or conditions appealed against.
(4) The chief executive officer shall in the case of a successful appeal
against a decision whereby an application for a permit or licence is refused,
issue the requisite permit or licence, subject to the conditions, if any,
imposed by the Review Board.
(5) A decision of the Review Board shall for the purposes of this Act be
deemed to be a decision of the Board.
Appeal to Supreme Court
21. (1) If a publication or film has in terms of a decision referred to in
section 20 been classified as XX or X18, the publisher or distributor of that
publication or the person who applied for the classification of that film, may
within a period of 30 days from the date on which he or she was notified of
the
decision in respect of the film, or within 30 days from the date on which the
classification of the publication was published in the Gazette, appeal to the
Supreme Court against that decision.
(2) The Supreme Court may on good cause shown, suspend a decision with
regard to a publication pending the outcome of the appeal.
(3) The Supreme Court may confirm the decision appealed against or may set
that decision aside, and give such decision, make such classification and
impose such conditions as should in its view have been given, made or imposed.
(4) A decision of the Supreme Court shall for purposes of this Act be
deemed
to be a decision of the Board.
CHAPTER 6
Exemptions:
Publications and Films
Exemption of persons from certain sections, and exclusions from application of
this Act
22. (1) The executive committee may on receipt of an application in the
prescribed form, subject to such conditions as it may deem fit, exempt in
writing any person or institution from sections 25, 27 and 28 if it has good
reason to believe that bona fide purposes will be served by such an exemption.