Video Recordings Act, 1989
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Interpretation. |
1.—(1) In this Act— | |
“the Appeal Board” means the Censorship of Films Appeal Board, established by the Censorship of Films Act, 1923 ; | ||
“business”, except in subsections (1) (b) and (3) (a) of section 2 and section 19 (2) (c) of this Act, includes any activity carried on by a club; | ||
“a classification” means a classification of a video work by the Official Censor under section 4 of this Act; | ||
“exempted supply” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of this Act; | ||
“exempted work” means a video work that, taken as a whole— | ||
(a) is designed to inform, educate or instruct, | ||
(b) is concerned with religion, music or sport, or | ||
(c) is a video game, | ||
and that does not fall within a description specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 3 (1) of this Act; | ||
“licence” means a wholesale licence or a retail licence; | ||
“the Minister” means the Minister for Justice; | ||
“the Official Censor” means the Official Censor of Films appointed under the Censorship of Films Act, 1923 , and includes a person appointed under section 2 (3) of that Act; | ||
“premises” includes any vehicle, vessel or stall; | ||
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister; | ||
“prohibition order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 7 of this Act; | ||
“retail licence” has the meaning assigned to it by section 18 (2) of this Act; | ||
“supply” means supply in any manner, whether or not for reward and, therefore, includes supply by way of sale, letting on hire, exchange or loan, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly; | ||
“supply certificate” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3 of this Act; | ||
“video recording” means any disc or magnetic tape containing information by the use of which the whole or a part of a video work may be produced; | ||
“video work” means any series of visual images (whether with or without sound)— | ||
(a) produced, whether electronically or by other means, by the use of information contained on any disc or magnetic tape, and | ||
(b) shown as a moving picture; | ||
“wholesale licence” has the meaning assigned to it by section 18 (1) of this Act. | ||
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a video recording contains a video work if it contains information by the use of which the whole or a part of the work may be produced; but where a video work includes an extract from another video work, that extract shall not be regarded, for the purposes of this subsection, as part of that other work. | ||
(3) Where an alteration (which expression includes an addition) is made to a video work in respect of which a supply certificate is in force for the time being, the certificate shall not be treated for the purposes of this Act as being in force in respect of the altered work. | ||
(4) References in this Act to selling or to letting on hire include references to agreeing or offering to sell or to let on hire and to inviting offers to buy or to take on hire. |