New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
The functions of the labelling body are as follows:
(a) in accordance with regulations made under this Act,—
(i) to assign a rating to any film referred to it for the issue of a label:
(ii) where appropriate, to assign a description to any such film to indicate whether it contains antisocial behaviour, cruelty, violence, crime, horror, sex, or offensive language or behaviour:
(b) to issue in respect of any such film a label that contains the rating and description (if any) assigned to that film:
(ba) to issue, on an application under section 9(1) in respect of the film and in accordance with regulations made under this Act, but without a direction of the Classification Office under section 36, labels (containing the classification of, and any description assigned to, the item) in respect of a film—
(i) an item on which has been classified under this Act as a restricted publication; and
(ii) all other material on which is material to which the labelling body would, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, be permitted to assign a rating:
(bb) to issue, at the direction of the Classification Office under section 36 or section 36A(2), and in accordance with regulations made under this Act, labels in respect of the following publications:
(i) a film to which section 36(1) or (2) applies:
(ii) a publication (other than a film) that is the subject of a condition imposed pursuant to section 27(4)(a):
(c) to examine, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, any film poster used or intended to be used in relation to the public supply or public exhibition of any film.
Compare: 1987 No 85 s 11
Section 71(ba): inserted, on 21 May 2005, by section 21 of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 2).
Section 71(bb): inserted, on 21 May 2005, by section 21 of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 2).
