Singapore legislation

Regulation 3

of Films (Exemption) Notification 2005

Regulation 3

Exemption

Amended byS 347/2019 wef 29/04/2019S 347/2019 wef 29/04/2019S 347/2019 wef 29/04/2019S 430/2006 wef 21/07/2006S 430/2006 wef 21/07/2006S 347/2019 wef 29/04/2019

Sections 22 and 22A of the Act shall not apply to any person who publishes an advertisement for a film that is distributed or publicly exhibited or intended for distribution or public exhibition provided that the advertisement for that film complies with the following conditions:

(a)

the advertisement states the classification rating that accords with the classification assigned to that film under the Act and the consumer advice applicable to the film (if any);

(b)

the advertising poster for any film assigned a classification rating of “R21” is only displayed in exhibition points lawfully permitted to publicly exhibit films assigned that classification rating;

(c)

the advertisement does not depict human genitalia or nudity of any kind (including images of persons in titillating attire);

(d)

the advertisement does not depict any person in a sexually provocative manner or in any other offensive manner;

(e)

the advertisement does not depict or promote explicit sexual violence or sexual activity involving coercion or in anyway associated with violence (including images of bondage);

(f)

the advertisement does not depict or promote homosexual intimacy (including images of same gender kissing);

(g)

the advertisement does not depict or promote fetishes or deviant sexual practices (including images of paedophilia, bestiality or necrophilia);

(h)

the advertisement does not depict explicit acts of cruelty or violence (including gory images of dismemberment, bloody wounds or impaled bodies);

(i)

the advertisement does not depict ghastly or horrifying images of the supernatural (including frightening images of disfigured or ghostly apparitions);

(j)

the advertisement does not depict or promote illicit drug use, explicit criminal or anti-social behaviour (including images of the consumption of illicit drugs, triad ceremonies or rituals);

(k)

the advertisement does not depict or promote any matter or thing likely to cause feelings of enmity, ill-will or hostility between different racial or religious groups in Singapore;

(l)

the advertisement does not depict ethnic, racial or religious hatred, strife or intolerance (including disrespectful images of religious figures or objects);

(la)the advertisement does not contain any matter which denigrates or is offensive to any race or religion in Singapore;

(m)

the advertisement does not depict or promote any cult or any deviant belief or teaching; (n)the advertisement does not depict any lewd, obscene or offensive act, word or message of any kind; and

(o)

the advertisement shall not be displayed in a manner or place likely to cause offence to any section of the public.

Read in full context — Films (Exemption) Notification 2005 →