Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) (ENFORCEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 51

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person screens an advertisement for a film in a public place; and

        (b)     the advertisement is screened during a program for the exhibition of another film (the feature film ); and

        (c)     the feature film has a classification mentioned in column 2 of an item in table 51; and

        (d)     the advertised film does not have a classification mentioned in column 3 of the item.

Table 51

column 1 item	column 2 feature film	column 3 advertised film
1	G	G
2	PG	PG or G
3	M	M, PG or G
4	MA 15+	MA 15+, M, PG or G
5	R 18+	R 18+, MA 15+, M, PG or G
6	X 18+	X 18+, R 18+, MA 15+, M, PG or G

Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person screens an advertisement for an unclassified film in a public place; and

        (b)     the advertisement does not comply with the advertising scheme.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (3)     An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.