Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND (NO 77 OF 1996)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) (Enforcement) (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1996.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) (Enforcement) Act 1995.1  

   PART II--AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL ACT INTERPRETATION

   4.      Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following definition:“ ‘X film' means a film classified X.”.  
   5.      Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:  
   6.      Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (2) all the words after “film” (second occurring).  
   7.      After section 54 of the Principal Act the following Part is inserted:  

   PART VI--X FILMS

   8.      Section 64 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:  
   9.      After section 64 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:  

   PART III--AMENDMENT OR REPEAL OF OTHER ACTS

   10.     The Taxation (Administration) Act 1987 is amended as set out in the Schedule.  
   11.     The Business Franchise (“X” Videos) Act 1990 is repealed.  

   PART IV--SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   12.     In this Part—“commencement date” means the date on which section 10 of this Act commences; “Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Australian Capital Territory Revenue; “former Act” means the Business Franchise (“X” Videos) Act 1990.  
   13.     (1) A licence granted under section 5 of the former Act and in force immediately before the commencement day continues in force after that day for the remainder of the period for which the licence would, but for this Act, have remained in force.  
   15.     A notice under section 7 of the former Act and in force immediately before the commencement date shall, on that commencement, be taken to have been given by the Registrar under section 54K of the Principal Act.  
   16.     Where, before the commencement date, a licensee submitted a licence to the Commissioner under section 8 of the former Act and, immediately before that date, the Commissioner—  
   17.     Where the time specified in a notice under subsection 10 (3) of the former Act expires after the commencement date, the notice shall, on that commencement, be taken to have been revoked.  
   18.     A licensee shall be taken to have contravened section 11 or 12 of the former Act if, within the period specified in that section, the licensee fails to surrender or return the licence (as the case requires) to the Registrar.  
   19.     (1) Where, under the former Act, a person was entitled to appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal against a decision of the Commissioner and, immediately before the commencement date, had not done so, an appeal against that decision may be made to the Tribunal as if the decision were a decision of the Registrar.  
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