(2) Any person may, after the expiry of a period of two years from the date
upon which a classification in terms of paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of
section 17(1) was published in the Gazette. lodge an application with the
Board applying for the imposition of more lenient conditions relating to the
distribution of that publication, or that such distribution be freed from all
restrictive conditions.
(3) The chief executive officer shall refer a complaint or application
under
subsection (1) or (2) to a classification committee for examination and
classification.
(4) No decision shall be taken on any complaint or application lodged in
terms of subsection (I) or (2) unless the publisher of that publication has
been given a reasonable notice of the place where and the date and time when
the application will be heard: Provided that if a periodical publication is
the subject of such an application, a notice which is received by the
publisher
concerned three days prior to the date of such hearing shall be regarded as
reasonable notice.
Classification committee shall consider publication and shall classify or
refuse to classify publication
17. (1) A classification committee shall, upon submission to
complaint or an application in terms of section 16, examine and
content of the publication in question and shall with reference
1,
2, 3 and 4, read with Schedule 5, or with reference to Schedule
the publication as-
it of a
consider the
to Schedules
10, classify
(a) XX, if Schedule 1 or 10,
(b) X18, if Schedule 2,
(c) R18, if Schedule 3, or
(d) F18, if Schedule 4,
applies, and shall in the case of an F18 classification, impose any or both of
the conditions referred to in Schedule 3 and shall inform the chief executive
officer of its decision and the reasons therefor and of the classification (if
any) and, in the case of an XX classification, of the particular clause of
Schedule 1 upon which the decision is based, and in the case of an R18 or F18
classification, of the conditions imposed.
(2) The chief executive officer shall, if a publication to which an
application submitted in terms of-
to
(a) section 16(1) relates, has in terms of a decision of a classification
committee been classified as XX, X18, R18 or F18, cause that decision
be published in the Gazette;
(b) section 16(2) relates, has been reclassified as requested, or has been
freed from all restrictive conditions, cause the latest classification
to be published in the Gazette, and shall at the same time refer to the
previous classification and indicate that it has been substituted or
that it has been withdrawn, as the case may be.
CHAPTER 4
Applications for, and Classification of Films