[Index] [Search] [Download] [Related Items] [Help]
This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2022
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Classification (Publications, Films and
Computer Games) Amendment (Loot
Boxes) Bill 2022
No. , 2022
(Mr Wilkie)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Classification
(Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995,
and for related purposes
No. , 2022
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment
(Loot Boxes) Bill 2022
i
Contents
1
Short title ........................................................................................... 1
2
Commencement ................................................................................. 1
3
Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
3
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995
3
No. , 2022
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment
(Loot Boxes) Bill 2022
1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Classification
1
(Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995,
2
and for related purposes
3
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
4
1 Short title
5
This Act is the
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer
6
Games) Amendment (Loot Boxes) Act 2022
.
7
2 Commencement
8
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
9
commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
10
column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
11
according to its terms.
12
2
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment
(Loot Boxes) Bill 2022
No. , 2022
1
Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
2
enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
3
this Act.
4
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
5
Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
6
may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
7
3 Schedules
8
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
9
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
10
concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
11
according to its terms.
12
Amendments
Schedule 1
No. , 2022
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment
(Loot Boxes) Bill 2022
3
Schedule 1--Amendments
1
2
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games)
3
Act 1995
4
1 After section 9A
5
Insert:
6
9B Classification and consumer advice for computer games that
7
contain loot boxes
8
(1) A computer game that contains a loot box must be classified R 18+
9
or RC.
10
(2) A warning that a computer game contains loot boxes is taken to be
11
consumer advice determined by the Board under section 20 for any
12
computer game that contains a loot box.
13
(3) In this section:
14
loot box
means a feature of a computer game where digital
15
containers of randomised virtual items can be obtained for
16
consideration.
17
2 Application of amendment
18
The amendment made by this Schedule applies in relation to computer
19
games classified after the commencement of this Schedule.
20