Censorship changes in Parliament

24/08/05
Improvements to Western Australia's censorship laws will strengthen police powers against child pornography and bring film and computer game classifications in line with national standards.
Justice Minister John D'Orazio said that the Censorship Amendment Bill 2005, would be introduced into State Parliament today.
"The Bill will ensure that police are able to seize and hold computers and other equipment that they believe may contain child pornography," Mr D'Orazio said.
"Another change will clear up anomalies in the Censorship Act 1996 (WA) so that the powers of police to issue and withdraw infringement notices are clarified.
"The name of the Act will also change to Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act 1996 (WA) to better reflect the State's role which, since 1996, has been primarily to enforce Commonwealth censorship decisions."
Mr D'Orazio said the Bill applied the Commonwealth's new combined classifications for films and computer games, which would be: