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Content Classification Code

A copy of the National Classification Code for Publications as developed by the Office of Film and Literature Classification is provided here for your reference as part of the YSA Information Systems Acceptable Use Policy.

National Classification Code

Publications, films and computer games are to be classified by the OFLC in accordance with the following tables:

Description of Publication Classification
Publications that:
  1. 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 classified; or
  2. describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a minor who is, or appears to be, under 16 (whether the minor is engaged in sexual activity or not); or
  3. promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime or violence.
Refused
Classification
Publications (except RC publications) that:
  1. explicitly depict sexual or sexually related activity between consenting adults in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult; or
  2. depict, describe or express revolting or abhorrent phenomena in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult and are unsuitable for a minor to see or read.
 Category 2
Restricted
Publications (except RC publications and Category 2 restricted publications) that:
  1. explicitly depict nudity, or describe or impliedly depict sexual or sexually related activity between consenting adults, in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult; or
  2. describe or express in detail violence or sexual activity between consenting adults in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult; or
  3. are unsuitable for a minor to see or read.
Category 1
Restricted
All other publications Unrestricted

Last revised: Nov 8, 1997 by Stuart Prescott (S.Prescott@ysa.org.au)