Refused Classification

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Publications which contain elements which exceed those set out in the above classification categories are classified ‘RC’.

Publications which fall within the criteria for ‘RC’ classification cannot be legally imported or sold in Australia.

The National Classification Code sets out the criteria for classifying a publication ‘RC’.

These include publications that:

• describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified; or

• describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not), or;

• promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime or violence.

Publications that appear to purposefully debase or abuse for the enjoyment of readers/viewers, and which lack moral, artistic or other values to the extent that they offend against generally accepted standards of morality, decency and propriety will be classified

‘RC’.

Publications will be classified ‘RC’ :

(a)

if they promote or provide instruction in paedophile activity;

or if they contain:

(b)

descriptions or depictions of child sexual abuse or any other exploitative or offensive descriptions or depictions involving a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 ;

(c)

detailed instruction in:

(i)

matters of crime or violence,

(ii)

the use of proscribed drugs;

(d)

realistic depictions of bestiality;

or if they contain gratuitous, exploitative or offensive descriptions or depictions of:

(e)

violence with a very high degree of impact which are excessively frequent, emphasised or detailed;

(f)

cruelty or real violence which are very detailed or which have a high impact;

(g)

sexual violence;

(h)

sexualised nudity involving minors;

(i)

sexual activity involving minors;

or if they contain exploitative descriptions or depictions of:

(j)

violence in a sexual context;

(k)

sexual activity accompanied by fetishes or practices which are revolting or abhorrent;

(l)

incest fantasies or other fantasies which are offensive or revolting or abhorrent.

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RC Refused Classification