The Video Recordings (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 852

VIDEO RECORDINGS

The Video Recordings (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

18th March 1998

Laid before Parliament

26th March 1998

Coming into force

20th April 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 8 of the Video Recordings Act 1984(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Video Recordings (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 20th April 1998.

2.—(1) The Video Recordings (Labelling) Regulations 1985(2) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.

(2) In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “disc”, add:

““double-sided disc” means a disc containing on both faces the information by the use of which the whole or part of a video work may be produced;”.

(3) After regulation 4, insert the following regulations:

“4A.— (1) In relation to a double-sided disc, the requirement in regulation 4(1)(a) above to show the appropriate symbol on one face of every disc shall have effect as if these Regulations were amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.

(2) In regulation 2(3), after “means” add “the letters “UK”, followed by”.

(3) In regulation 7:

(a) omit paragraphs (a) to (d);

(b) in paragraph (e), for “5” substitute “2”; and

(c) in paragraph (f), before sub-paragraph (i) insert:

“(ai) the letters “U” and “K” before the letters, numbers or word and number,s as the case may be, specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of regulation 2(3);”.

4B.— (1) In relation to a disc which is not a double-sided disc, the requirement in regulation 4(1)(a) above to show the appropriate symbol on one face of every disc shall have effect as if regulation 7 were amended in accordance with paragraph (2) below.

(2) In regulation 7:

(a) in paragraph (a), omit the words “green coloured”;

(b) in paragraph (b), omit the words “yellow coloured”;

(c) in paragraph (c)(i), omit the words “red coloured”;

(d) in paragraph (c)(ii),

(i) add after the word “red” the words “or black”; and

(ii) omit the words “white coloured”; and

(e) in paragraph (d) omit the words “blue coloured”.”.

Gareth Williams

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

18th March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 20th April 1998, amend the Video Recordings (Labelling) Regulations 1985 in two respects. First, new symbols are introduced for double-sided discs, which contain information on both faces. The new symbols, which dispense with the requirement for coloured shaped backgrounds, are to be shown on one face of every double-sided disc. Second, the Regulations remove the requirement for symbols on single-sided discs to be set on coloured backgrounds and permit all such symbols to be black.

(1)

1984 c. 39.

(2)

S.I. 1985/911, as amended by S.I. 1995/2550.