Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) ACT 1995 - SECT 93

General regulation - making power

  (1)   The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

Regulations in relation to assessments of additional content or consumer advice

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may prescribe:

  (aa)   for the purposes of paragraphs 17A(2)(c), 17B(1)(b) and 17C(1)(b)--circumstances in which an assessment of a computer game is taken to contain misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate information; and

  (a)   for the purposes of subparagraphs   17A(2)(a)(ii), 21AA(a)(ii), 21AC(a)(ii) and 22E(2)(a)(ii)--circumstances in which an assessment of classifiable elements is taken to be misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate; and

  (b)   for the purposes of paragraphs 22E(2)(c), 22F(1)(b) and 22H(1)(b)--circumstances in which an assessment of additional content is taken to contain misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate information; and

  (c)   for the purposes of subparagraphs   22CH(1)(b)(ii) and 22L(1)(b)(ii)--circumstances in which consumer advice is taken to be misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate; and

  (d)   for the purposes of subparagraph   22Q(2)(b)(iii)--circumstances in which consumer advice is taken to be grossly misleading, grossly incorrect or grossly inadequate.

  (3)   To avoid doubt, the regulations are not to be taken to limit the circumstances in which:

  (a)   an assessment is misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate; or

  (b)   an assessment contains misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate information; or

  (c)   consumer advice is misleading, incorrect or grossly inadequate; or

  (d)   consumer advice is grossly misleading, grossly incorrect or grossly inadequate.