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Licensing Act 2003

Section 20 – Mandatory condition: exhibition of films

67.Where a premises licence authorises the exhibition of a film this section makes it mandatory for a condition to be included in the premises licence requiring the admission of children to films to be restricted in accordance with recommendations given either by a body designated under section 4 of the Video Recordings Act 1984 or by the licensing authority itself. When the Act was passed the only body designated under section 4 of the Video Recordings Act 1984 was the British Board of Film Classification.

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