MTRCB MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 98-05, August 03, 1998
PUBLICATION OF FILM CLASSIFICATION IN PRINT ADS
newspaper and magazine publishers, are hereby reminded that Section 8
of Presidential Decree No. 1986 requires all motion pictures exhibitors
to
“. . . Include in all their cinema advertisements announcements
stating the classification, as provided in Section 3(e) hereof, of the
motion picture being exhibited or advertised.”
Further, the MTRCB had previously issued Memorandum Circular 97-11
requiring all concerned to “ print at the top of their newspaper ads
any of the following announcements, depending upon the actual rating of
their movies:
Rated R-18 by the MTRCB
Rated PG-13 by the MTRCB
Rated PG-7 by the MTRCB
Rated GP by the MTRCB.”
The MTRCB will not hesitate to mete out the appropriate penalties
for failure to comply with these provisions of the law and the
Memorandum Circulars implementing the same.
For your information and immediate compliance.
Adopted: 03 Aug. 1998
(SGD.) ARMIDA P.E. SIGUION-REYNA
Chairman, MTRCB