Films (Classification and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

No. S 419

Films Act

(CHAPTER 107)

Films (Classification and Licensing)
(Amendment) Regulations 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 41 of the Films Act, the Minister for Communications and Information makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Films (Classification and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 1 July 2021.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Films (Classification and Licensing) Regulations 2019 (G.N. No. S 341/2019) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “Films (Classification Ratings) Order 2019 (G.N. No. S 340/2019)” in the definition of “alternative classification marking” and substituting the words “Films (Classification Ratings) Order 2021 (G.N. No. S 421/2021)”;

(b)

by deleting the words “in the Films (Class Licence for Lending by Libraries and Educational Institutions) Order 2019 (G.N. No. S 336/2019)” in the definition of “class licensee” and substituting the words “determined under an order made under section 10A of the Act”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “class licensee” in paragraph (a) of the definition of “classification label”, the words “for lending”;

(d)

by deleting “2019” in the definition of “classification marking” and substituting “2021”; and

(e)

by deleting the definitions of “licence” and “licensee” and substituting the following definition:

“ “licensee” excludes a person to whom a class licence determined under an order made under section 10A of the Act applies;”.

Deletion and substitution of Part 2

3. Part 2 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following Part substituted therefor:

“PART 2

LICENSEES

Security deposit required

3. For the purposes of section 8(1) of the Act, the Authority may, upon granting a licence mentioned in section 6(1)(c) of the Act, require the licensee granted the licence to give a security, in the form of a cash deposit or bank guarantee, of an amount not exceeding —

(a)	$10,000, for a licence to publicly exhibit one or more films in the course of business at a temporary public exhibition point; or
(b)	$30,000, in any other case.”.

Amendment of Schedule

4. The Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting items 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14; and
(b)	by renumbering item 15 as item 8.

Made on 28 June 2021.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications
and Information,
Singapore.

[CRN.0001.200002; AG/LEGIS/SL/107/2020/1 Vol. 1]

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