s.10Unrated film unsuitable for child viewership
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Section 10Part 2 — FILM CONTROL BOARD AND PUBLIC FILM EXHIBITION RATING CERTIFICATE

Unrated film unsuitable for child viewership

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A film which has not been rated in accordance with section 8 shall be regarded as unsuitable for viewing by a child.
A person who is the —
owner or controller of an unrated film; or
owner or controller of premises on which the unrated film is intended to be exhibited or is being exhibited,
shall not cause or permit; or continue to cause or permit the film —
to be exhibited to a child; and
to be exhibited before 7:00 p.m., notwithstanding paragraph 3(1)(b) of Schedule 6 or at such other times as may be prescribed without the prior approval of the Board.
Notwithstanding section 2(b)(ii), the Board may, and having regard to the factors specified in section 9, prohibit a person from exhibiting an unrated film in the Islands.
A person who contravenes subsection (2) or acts contrary to a prohibition in subsection (3) is liable to a penalty of two thousand dollars or such other amount as may be prescribed and a further penalty of one hundred dollars for each day that the breach continues after the date of its proof.
A person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of four thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term of six months or to both if —
he fails to pay the penalty specified in subsection (4);
continues to exhibit the film after a failure to pay the penalty specified in subsection (3); or
after having paid the penalty continues to exhibit the film in contravention of subsection (1).
Where an offence under subsection (5) has been committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of the member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

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