Video Recordings Act, 1989

Register of Prohibited Video Works.

15.—(1) The Official Censor shall establish and maintain a register in the prescribed form (which shall be known as the Register of Prohibited Video Works and is referred to in this section as the register) of video works in respect of which a prohibition order is for the time being in force.

(2) The Official Censor may, as occasion requires, amend or delete an entry in the register.

(3) (a) Members of the public may inspect the register free of charge at all reasonable times and may take copies of, or of extracts from, entries in the register.

(b) In any proceedings a certificate signed by the Official Censor or by a person authorised by him and stating—

(i) that he has examined the register and a video work (or part of a video work) contained in a video recording identified by the certificate, and

(ii) that the register shows that on the date or during the period specified in the certificate a prohibition order was in force in respect of the work, and

(iii) that a document identified by and attached to the certificate is a copy of the prohibition order in force as aforesaid,

shall be admissible as evidence of the fact that a prohibition order was in force in respect of the work on the date or, as the case may be, during the period aforesaid and of the terms of the order.

(c) In any proceedings a certificate signed by the Official Censor or by a person authorised by him and stating—

(i) that he has examined the register and a video work contained in a video recording identified by the certificate, and

(ii) that the register shows that on the date or during the period specified in the certificate a prohibition order was not in force in respect of the work,

shall be admissible as evidence of the fact that a prohibition order was not in force in respect of the work on the date or, as the case may be, during the period aforesaid.

(d) A document purporting to be a certificate under paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection shall be deemed to be such a certificate, and to have been signed by the person purporting to have signed it (and, in the case of such a document purporting to have been signed by a person authorised by the Official Censor, to have been signed in accordance with the authorisation), unless the contrary is shown.

(4) (a) The Official Censor shall from time to time cause a list of the video works entered in the register to be published in such manner as he thinks fit.

(b) The Official Censor shall keep the Revenue Commissioners informed of the video works entered for the time being in the register, and an officer of customs and excise shall, if so requested by a person when entering the State, furnish to him for examination a list of the video works entered for the time being in the register.