(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