Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Cinematograph Films (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Repeal and re-enactment of section 2

Section 2 of the principal Act is repealed and the following substituted therefor: —“Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —“Board” means the Board of Film Censors established under this Act to carry out the duties of censorship of films;“certificate” means a certificate issued under the provisions of subsection (2) of section 10 of this Act;“distribution”, with its cognate expression, includes sale, hiring out and circulation;“exhibition” and “presentation”, with their cognate expressions, of a film include the production of any music, speech, noise, or other sound whatsoever, which accompanies the projection of a film;“film” includes any record, however made, of a sequence of visual images, which is a record capable of being used as a means of showing that sequence as a moving picture;“owner” of a film means any person who is for the time being entitled either as owner or agent for the owner, or otherwise, to the possession of the film, but does not include a bank through which a film is bona fide consigned for the sole purpose of collecting a trade debt.”.

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