Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00211:reg:4a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00211
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4A (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 23792–26580

4A  Importation of objectionable goods
 (1) In this regulation, unless the contrary intention appears:
authorised person means a person appointed to be an authorised person under subregulation (2A).
computer game means a computer program and associated data capable of generating a display on a computer monitor, television screen, liquid crystal display or similar medium that allows the playing of an interactive game.
computer generated image means an image (including an image in the form of text) produced by use of a computer on a computer monitor, television screen, liquid crystal display or similar medium from electronically recorded data.
film includes a cinematograph film, a slide, video tape and video disc and any other form of recording from which a visual image, including a computer generated image, can be produced, but does not include a computer game.
interactive game means a game in which the way the game proceeds and the result achieved at various stages of the game is determined in response to the decisions, inputs and direct involvement of the player.
publication means any book, paper, magazine, film, computer game or other written or pictorial matter.
responsible Minister means the Minister administering Part 2 of the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995.
terrorist act has the same meaning as in section 100.1 of the Criminal Code (no matter where the action occurs, the threat of action is made or the action, if carried out, would occur).
Note: The definition of terrorist act in that section covers actions or threats of actions.
 (1A) This regulation applies to publications and any other goods, that:
 (a) describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be imported; or
 (b) describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is, or who appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not); or
 (d) promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime or violence; or
 (e) promote or incite the misuse of a drug specified in Schedule 4; or
 (f) advocate the doing of a terrorist act.
 (1AA) Without limiting subregulation (1A), this regulation also applies to a computer game classified RC (Refused Classification) under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995.
 (1B) For paragraph (1A)(f), publications and any other goods advocate the doing of a terrorist act if they:
 (a) directly or indirectly counsel, promote, encourage or urge the doing of