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Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993

Labelling requirements for specified CVoD providers’ commercial video on-demand content

46E: Content not previously labelled or classified

You could also call this:

"Labelling video content that hasn't been labelled before"

Illustration for Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993

You need to label video content if it has not been labelled before. You can use a self-rating system that has been approved. If you use this system, you must apply the label it gives, unless it says the content might be objectionable. You can also ask the labelling body for a label under section 9(1). If the self-rating system says the content might be objectionable, you must send it to the Classification Office. They will then classify the content for you.

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Part 3ALabelling requirements for specified CVoD providers’ commercial video on-demand content

46EContent not previously labelled or classified

  1. If a specified CVoD provider intends to make available to persons in New Zealand commercial video on-demand content to which a label has not been assigned under this Act, the provider must label the commercial video on-demand content by—

  2. using an approved self-rating system; or
    1. applying to the labelling body under section 9(1) for the issue of a label in respect of that content.

      1. Unless the approved self-rating system used by the provider identifies the commercial video on-demand content as potentially being objectionable, the provider must apply the label generated by the approved self-rating system.

      2. If the approved self-rating system used by the provider identifies the commercial video on-demand content as potentially being objectionable, the provider must refer that content to the Classification Office for classification.

      Notes
      • Section 46E: inserted, on , by section 7 of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification (Commercial Video on-Demand) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 49).