Applications for classification, and classification of films
18. (1) Any person who applies for the classification of a film in terms of
this Act, shall submit to the chief executive officer an application in the
prescribed form, together with the prescribed fee.
(2) The chief executive officer shall refer an application submitted to him
or her in terms of this section to a classification committee.
(3) The person who submitted an application in terms of this section shall(a) at his or her own expense make arrangements for the exhibition of the
film to the classification committee concerned, on such premises and
date and at such time as the chief executive officer may determine
after
consultation with such person; and
film
(b) undertake to provide the chief executive officer with a copy of the
in the form in which the film is in terms of the classification
permitted to be distributed.
(4) (a) The classification committee shall examine a film referred to it in
terms of subsection (2), and shall classify that film as(i) XX if it falls under Schedule 6 or 10;
(ii) X18 if it falls under Schedule 7;
(iii) R18 if it falls under Schedule 8.
(b) If a film examined in terms of paragraph (a) falls-
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(i) under any schedule, the classification committee may, if the
excision of a portion or portions of the film would place the film
under another Schedule, or outside of all Schedules, classify the
film as falling under such other Schedule or outside of all
Schedules, as the case may be, subject to the condition that the
portion or portions determined by the committee are excised from
film;
(ii) under Schedule 8, the classification committee may determine that
the film may be exhibited only to persons of or above a prescribed
age, specified by the committee, or that it may be exhibited only
after the prescribed consumer advice has been given to viewers.
(5) An XX or X18 classification shall not be applicable to a film which
falls under Schedule 9, or clause 2 of Schedule 10.
(6) After having reached a decision in terms of subsection (4), read with
subsection (5), the classification committee shall inform the chief executive
officer of its decision and the reasons therefor and, in the case of an XX
classification, of the particular clause of Schedule 6 upon which the decision
is based and, in the case of any other classification, of the conditions
imposed in terms of subsection (4).
(7) The chief executive officer shall inform the applicant of the decision
and the reasons therefor and shall furnish the applicant with the applicable
certificate, and if the film in question has been classified as XX he or she
shall specify the particular clause of Schedule 6 upon which such a
classification is based, and shall, in the case of an XX or X18
classification,
cause to be published in the Gazette a notice making known the classification