Part 15Film production
Chapter 1Introduction
Interpretation
1181“Film” etc
(1)
This section applies for the purposes of this Part.
(2)
“Film” includes any record, however made, of a sequence of visual images that is capable of being used as a means of showing that sequence as a moving picture.
(3)
Each part of a series of films is treated as a separate film, unless—
(a)
the films form a series with not more than 26 parts,
(b)
the combined playing time is not more than 26 hours, and
(c)
the series constitutes a self-contained work or is a series of documentaries with a common theme,
in which case the films are treated as a single film.
(4)
References to a film include the film soundtrack.
(5)
A film is completed when it is first in a form in which it can reasonably be regarded as ready for copies of it to be made and distributed for presentation to the general public.