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Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993

Review of classification decisions - Conduct of reviews

56: Reconsideration of decisions referred under section 41(3)

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"Asking the Board to rethink a decision about a publication"

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You can ask the Board to rethink a decision about a publication. The Board will look at it again like they are reviewing it under section 52. They will follow the rules in sections 53 to 55, as long as they apply, when they rethink the decision.

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Part 4Review of classification decisions
Conduct of reviews

56Reconsideration of decisions referred under section 41(3)

  1. Where, under section 41(3), a court refers to the Board for reconsideration any decision of the Board in respect of any publication, the Board shall carry out that reconsideration as if it were a review of that publication under section 52, and the provisions of sections 53 to 55, so far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply with respect to any such reconsideration.

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  • 1987 No 85 s 39