Class 1 material
106 Class 1 material
For the purposes of this Act, class 1 material means:
material where the following conditions are satisfied:
the material is a film or the contents of a film;
the film has been classified as RC by the Classification Board under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995; or
material where the following conditions are satisfied:
the material is a film or the contents of a film;
the film has not been classified by the Classification Board under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995;
if the film were to be classified by the Classification Board under that Act—the film would be likely to be classified as RC; or
material where the following conditions are satisfied:
the material is a publication or the contents of a publication;
the publication has been classified as RC by the Classification Board under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995; or
material where the following conditions are satisfied:
the material is a publication or the contents of a publication;
the publication has not been classified by the Classification Board under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995;
if the publication were to be classified by the Classification Board under that Act—the publication would be likely to be classified as RC; or
material where the following conditions are satisfied:
the material is a computer game;
the computer game has been classified as RC by the Classification Board under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995; or
material where the following conditions are satisfied:
the material is a computer game;
the computer game has not been classified by the Classification Board under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995;
if the computer game were to be classified by the Classification Board under that Act—the computer game would be likely to be classified as RC; or
material where the following conditions are satisfied:
the material is not a film, the contents of a film, a computer game, a publication or the contents of a publication;
if the material were to be classified by the Classification Board in a corresponding way to the way in which a film would be classified under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995—the material would be likely to be classified as RC.
See also section 160 (Commissioner may obtain advice from the Classification Board).
Section 22CF of the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 (which deals with classification using an approved classification tool) applies for the purposes of this section in a corresponding way to the way in which it applies for the purposes of that Act.
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