to the nomination of persons as candidates for the Board or Review
Board, further relevant experience in terms of section 6(4)(a) and the
experience of persons who may be appointed as members of the advisory
panel referred to in section 6(1).
(2) The Board shall make regulations relating to(a) the form of any application, certificate, permit or exemption;
of
(b) the age restriction and consumer advice in connection with films:
Provided that no age restriction shall be applied to persons 18 years
age or older; and
(c) any matter required or permitted to be prescribed, and, generally,
procedures aimed at the effective achievement of the objects of this
Act.
(3) (a) Within two years after the commencement of this Act the Board shall
publish the guidelines which the Board and the Review Board apply in order to
determine what is harmful or disturbing in terms of Schedules 3 and 8 in the
Gazette.
(b) As soon as possible after the lapse of every consecutive period of 12
months after the publication of the guidelines referred to in paragraph (a),
the Board shall publish the said guidelines in the Gazette and, where
necessary, amend them.
(c) Together with every publication of guidelines referred to in paragraphs
(a) and (b) an appeal shall be made on the public to make representations
concerning such guidelines, within 30 days after publication thereof.
Review of certain decisions with regard to publications and films
32. A publication or film which immediately before the commencement of this
Act was subject to any prohibition or condition in terms of the Publications
and Entertainments Act, 1963 (Act No. 26 of 1963), or the Publications Act,
1974 (Act No. 42 of 1974), shall be subject to a review in terms of section
16(2) or 18(8) of this Act notwithstanding the fact that the two year period
determined in those sections has not expired.
Repeal of laws
33. The laws mentioned in Schedule 12 are hereby repealed to the extent set
out in the third column.
Amendment of Act 71 of 1991
34. The Businesses Act, 1991, is hereby amended by the addition of the
following paragraph to item 2 of Schedule 1:
"(h) conducting adult premises referred to in section 24 of the
Films and Publications Act, 1996.".
Short title and commencement
35. This Act shall be called the Films and Publications Act, 1996, and
shall come into operation on a date fixed by the President by proclamation in
the Gazette.
SCHEDULE 1
XX CLASSIFICATION FOR PUBLICATIONS