Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES ACT - SECT 75

In this Division:

code of practice means a code of practice, as amended from time to time, approved and published under section 76.

computer service means a service provided by or through the facilities of a computer communication system allowing:

(a) the input, output or examination of computer data or computer programmes;

(b) the transmission of computer data or computer programmes from one computer to another; or

(c) the transmission of computer data or computer programmes from a computer to a terminal device.

objectionable material means:

(a) a film classified RC, a computer game classified RC or a refused publication;

(b) child pornography;

(c) an article that promotes crime or violence, or incites or instructs in matters of crime or violence; or

(d) an article that describes or depicts, in a manner that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult:

(i) the use of violence or coercion to compel a person to participate in, or submit to, sexual conduct;

(ii) sexual conduct with or on the body of a dead person;

(iii) the use of urine or excrement in association with degrading or dehumanising conduct or sexual conduct;

(iv) bestiality; or

(v) acts of torture or the infliction of extreme violence or extreme cruelty.

restricted material means an article that a reasonable adult, by reason of the nature of the article or the nature and extent of references in the article to matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena, would regard as unsuitable for a minor to see, read or hear.