page_title: Irish Film Classification Office
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Irish Film Classification Office / Background
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Enveloppe portant le cachet ovale officiel du Oifig Scrúdóir na Scannán avec un timbre-taxe irlandais appliqué pour un port-dû de 10 ancien pence English: Cover with official oval certifying cachet reading Scrúdóir na Scannán/Film Censor of the Irish Film Censor's Office with postage due instruction mark and Irish 10d postage due stamp applied because the postage was underpaid. Русский: Конверт с оттиском официального овального штампа с надписью Scrúdóir na Scannán/Цензор фильмов ирландского ведомства цензуры кинофильмов, с оттиском штемпеля доплаты и с ирландской доплатной маркой номиналом 10 пенсов, наклеенной, поскольку почтовый сбор был недоплачен.
context_page_description: The Irish Film Classification Office is the organisation responsible for films, television programmes, and some video game classification and censorship within Ireland. Where restrictions are placed by the IFCO, they are legally binding.
  Prior to 21 July 2008, the office was branded as the Irish Film Censor's Office, and was previously known as simply the Film Censor's Office, or, in legal references, the office of the Official Censor of Films, which was the official title of the head of the office prior to that date. The head of the office is the Director of Film Classification.
context_section_description: The Irish Film Censor's Office was set up in 1923, in accordance with the Censorship of Films Act, 1923. This law was amended in 1925, 1930, 1970, and 1992; and a substantial revision of the law occurred in the Video Recordings Act, 1989 which extended the remit of the office to the regulation of the video importation and supply industry. On 21 July 2008 the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 came into force. Section 70 changes some of the provisions with regard censorship of films in the State. Section 71 renames the Film Censor as the Director of Film Classification and consequent to this, the Irish Film Censor's Office became the Irish Film Classification Office.
caption: 1965 envelope sent to local office of 20th Century Fox with certifying cachet of the Film Censor's Office
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