Rating Board to replace Censors Board
White Paper to be brought to Parliament dealing with a Ratings Board to replace the Censors Board. Hasn’t this being the practice since the early 1990s?
The Censors Board will be scrapped and replaced by one which will rate films.
This is the word from Information Minister Neil Parsanlal who further disclosed that a White Paper on the matter will be brought to Parliament.
There have already been discussions on the matter with people in the movie industry and other interested papers.
However, Frank Seyon, a former Censors Board chairman, told the Tntinsider that the board has in fact been operating as a ratings board for the past 16 years. He was appointed chairman of the board in 1992 and he, personally, went across to Canada and visited the Ontario Ratings Board to study its operations.
When he returned instead of films being censored as in the past they were rated for different audiences in the same way movies are rated on television.
“A ratings board will be nothing new. This is what the Censors Board under my chairmanship in the1990s became”, he said.
The Board was set up in the 1930s under legislation to regulate films in the cinema industry.