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- the (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