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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4576 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

`(3) A licensee shall not, without reasonable excuse, contravene subsection (1).

Penalty: 20 penalty points.'.".

Page 7, line 20, clause 6, after proposed subsection 54L(7) insert the following subsection:

"(8) The Registrar shall cancel a licensee's licence on the written request of the licensee.".

Page 7, line 23, clause 6, proposed subsection 54M(1), insert "or copy" after "sell".

Page 11, lines 30 to 32, clause 12, subclause (2), omit the subclause, substitute the following subclauses:

"(2) A continued licence shall be taken to have been granted under section 54E of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.

(3) Subsection 20(2) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act does not apply in relation to the licensee under a continued licence in so far as it creates an offence relating to copying an X film.

(4) For the purposes of section 54H of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, if the application for renewal of a continued licence is accompanied by the determined fee appropriate for the renewal of a licence granted under section 54E of the Principal Act as so amended to sell and copy X films (a `combined licence'), the continued licence shall be taken to be a combined licence.

(5) In this section -

`continued licence' means a licence continued in force under subsection (1).".

I also present a supplementary explanatory memorandum. Mr Speaker, the amendments prohibit the copying of films which have been refused classification and unclassified films; they require that a person be licensed before he or she may copy X films; and they enable a licence fee where a licence to sell or copy X films is renewed to be paid on a quarterly basis. The Government has decided to make these amendments to the Bill, which was introduced in September, following discussions with representatives of the X video industry. Until now duplicators of X films who were not also in the business of selling or exhibiting the films have not been regulated under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) (Enforcement) Act 1995. However, in putting in place the new X video licensing regime which was announced as part of the budget,

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