Queensland Consolidated Acts

CLASSIFICATION OF COMPUTER GAMES AND IMAGES ACT 1995 - SECT 8C

(1) This section applies if the director or the computer games classification officer has reasonable grounds to believe that--

(a) an unclassified computer game is not an exempt computer game; and

(b) a person (publisher) is publishing, or will publish, the computer game in Queensland.

(2) The director or the computer games classification officer may, by written notice given to the publisher of the computer game, require the publisher to submit an application for classification of the computer game.

(3) For the requirement under subsection (2) to have effect--

(a) if the director makes the requirement--the director must cause notice of the requirement to be published in the Commonwealth gazette; or

(b) if the computer games classification officer makes the requirement--the officer must cause notice of the requirement to be gazetted.

(4) The publisher must comply with the notice within 3 business days after receiving it.

Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(5) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (4) for the defendant to prove that the defendant did not intend--

(a) to publish the computer game in Queensland; or

(b) to cause, authorise, permit or license the computer game to be published in Queensland.