3.—(1) In this Notification, an “exempt video recording” means any of the following video tapes or video discs containing material that may be classified under the Act as suitable for general exhibition and not containing any impermissible material referred to in sub‑paragraph (2):| (a) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly a documentary record of —| (i) | any instrumental music performance, such as but not limited to orchestral or ensemble works and traditional or folk music played using ethnic musical instruments; | | (ii) | any performance of choral music, jazz music, folk songs or other music of ethnic origin, such as but not limited to “Dondang Sayang” and “Dikir Barat”; | | (iii) | any performance of any traditional drama, pantomime or puppet show or any folk puppetry or play, such as but not limited to “Bangsawan”, Chinese “cross‑talk”, Shakespearean plays and “Wayang Kulit”; | | (iv) | any ballet, ballroom dance, or traditional or folk dance in their original format, such as but not limited to “Bharatanatyam”, Flamenco and “Ronggeng”; or | | (v) | any other classical or traditional dance, play, art form or performance; |
| | (b) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly a documentary record of any horse‑riding, athletic activity or performance involving acrobatics or any sporting event, not including any opening ceremony or closing ceremony, parade or similar activity connected therewith; | | (c) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly a documentary record of any community‑based cultural activity or event, or of any National Day celebration or rally, State funeral or other public event of national significance; | | (d) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly of news bulletins or reports; | | (e) | a video tape or video disc for use pursuant to a branch of knowledge conducted on objective principles involving the systemised observation of, and experiment with, phenomena; | | (f) | a video tape or video disc of a technical or similar nature for use in the course of a business or trade or of a profession; | | (g) | a video tape or video disc whose main purpose is for training, instruction or reference, as a manual, a lesson, an encyclopedia or a guide; | | (h) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly of any programme that, before the making of the video tape or video disc, was broadcast in Singapore on free‑to‑air television; | | (i) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly of one or more episodes of a television series, or from a season of a television series, being a television series or season thereof completed before 1980 anywhere; | | (j) | a video tape or video disc completed before 1966 anywhere; | | (k) | a video tape or video disc made solely for karaoke with images of scenery, wildlife or other activity only; | | (l) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly of an advertising program or a commercial —| (i) | that promotes or is designed to publicise any goods (other than a film), any brand of products or any services; or | | (ii) | that promotes or is designed to publicise any event; |
| | (m) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly of a quiz program or a program of a like nature; | | (n) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly a documentary record of —| (i) | monuments, buildings or architectural works; | | (ii) | wildlife or nature, geological formations or other natural features; | | (iii) | natural or scientific phenomena, or actual events of a medical or scientific nature; or | | (iv) | elements or structures of an archaeological or a historical nature; or | | (v) | actual events or persons (historical or contemporary), including actual travel by or a biography of an actual person; |
| | (o) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly —| (i) | a demonstration for any task, hobby or project; or | | (ii) | a documentary record of any family event or activity; or |
| | (p) | a video tape or video disc comprising wholly a magic show, a circus performance, or any other show or performance that a reasonable adult will regard as suitable for children below the age of 7 years. |
(2) In sub‑paragraph (1), “impermissible material” means —| (a) | any matter likely to cause offence to any race or religious group in Singapore; | | (b) | any matter likely to cause feelings of enmity, hatred, ill‑will or hostility between different races or religious groups in Singapore; | | (c) | any religious teaching or instruction; | | (d) | any matter —| (i) | directly or indirectly counselling or urging the doing of any unlawful act or providing instruction on the doing of any unlawful act; or | | (ii) | directly praising the doing of an unlawful act in circumstances where there is a risk that such praise might have the effect of leading a person (regardless of his age or any mental impairment that the person may suffer) to engage in the unlawful act; |
| | (e) | any depiction or description of sex, sexual matters or nudity of any kind (including images of persons in titillating attire); | | (f) | any coarse language, or any depiction or description of acts of torture, cruelty or violence (whether or not sexual) or of abhorrent phenomena, whether natural or pertaining to the supernatural; or | | (g) | any express or implied reference to, or comment on, any candidate, any political party, any election, any referendum, any member of any Legislature, any government or previous government or any opposition to any government or previous government, whether that candidate, political party, election, referendum, member of any Legislature, any government or previous government or opposition is in Singapore or elsewhere. |
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