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amend
the Video Recordings Act 1984 to extend certain provisions of
that Act |
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to video games and to make
provision about the labelling of video games. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Amendment
of the Video Recordings Act 1984 |
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(1) |
The Video
Recordings Act 1984 (c. 39) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
In section 2 (exempted works),
subsection (1)(c) shall cease to have effect. |
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(3) |
In section 8 (requirements
as to labelling, etc.), after subsection (2), insert— |
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“(2A) |
Regulations under this section
shall, in particular, make provision— |
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(a) |
about the size of a label
on any spool, case or other thing in |
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which
a video game is kept, |
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(b) |
about the prominence to
be accorded to the classification in |
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relation
to age of the video game on such a label, |
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(c) |
requiring the inclusion
in such a label in relation to a video |
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game
to which subsection (2B) applies of such textual |
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information
as may be prescribed in the regulations. |
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(2B) |
This subsection applies
to video games which, in the opinion of the |
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designated
authority, have the potential to cause harm to viewers or, |
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through
their behaviour, to society, by the manner in which the work |
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(c) |
violent behaviour or incidents; |
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(d) |
horrific behaviour or incidents;
or |
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(e) |
human sexual activity. |
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(2C) |
The provisions of section
4A(2) apply for the purposes of the |
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interpretation
of this section as they apply for the purposes of the |
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interpretation
of that section.” |
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