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Provision is

made

in clause 6 for the

establishment of a panel of advisers

advisers to be appointed by

the Film Censorship Authority. These advisers will be

representative of a cross-section of our community. They

can be called upon to advise the censors.

arrangement will allow for a further community input into

the censorial process.

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The Authority will have power under clause 9 to

exempt a film from examination if it falls within a class

of film suitable for exemption. This will include films

of a purely instructional, promotional and educational

nature. The Authority will have working days to decide

whether film should be exempted after which it will be

subjected to the censorial process. However, experience

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seven

confirms that this time scale should be more than adequate

and I can assure the industry that no films will be

censored by default.

spelt out.

In

bfclause 10(2) the censorship criteria

The present criteria have been narrowed down.