Video Recordings Act 2010
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{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
{{Infobox UK legislation
|short_title=Video Recordings Act 2010
|parliament=Parliament of the United Kingdom
|long_title=An Act to repeal and revive provisions of the Video Recordings Act 1984.
|statute_book_chapter=2010 c. 1
|introduced_commons=Siôn Simon, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Creative Industries
|introduced_lords= Lord Davies of Oldham{{cite web|url=http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/videorecordings.html |title=Bills before Parliament |access-date=22 January 2010 |publisher=UK Parliament |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712144127/http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/videorecordings.html |archive-date=12 July 2015 }}
|territorial_extent=United Kingdom
|royal_assent=21 January 2010
|commencement=21 January 2010
|repeal_date=
|amendments=
|related_legislation=
|repealing_legislation=
|status=Current
|original_text=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/1/contents/enacted
|use_new_UK-LEG=yes
|legislation_history=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712144127/http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/videorecordings.html
}}
The Video Recordings Act 2010 (c. 1) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received royal assent on 21 January 2010. The Act repealed and then brought back into force parts of the Video Recordings Act 1984 which related to the regulation of video recordings. The Act was required because it was discovered in August 2009 that the European Commission had not been notified, in 1984, of the provisions of the Act in accordance with the predecessor to Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998, which laid down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121008212723/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31998L0034:en:NOT. "Directive 98/34/EC"]{{cite hansard |url=http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100106/debtext/100106-0005.htm#10010649000001 |title=Video Recordings Bill |house=House of Commons |date=6 January 2010 |column=181-209 |access-date=12 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604192116/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100106/debtext/100106-0005.htm#10010649000001 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} The provisions of the Act, which related to video classification and distribution in the United Kingdom, were unenforceable until the EC had been correctly notified of the technical standards.
The Act was debated by the House of Commons in just one day on 6 January 2010. It was first presented (first reading) on 15 December 2009{{cite hansard |url=http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm091215/debtext/91215-0009.htm#09121560000003 |title=Bill Presented |date=15 December 2009 |house=House of Commons |column=834 |access-date=12 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604192131/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm091215/debtext/91215-0009.htm#09121560000003 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} and the second reading, committee stage and third reading{{cite hansard|title=Video Recordings Bill|house=House of Commons|date=6 January 2010|url=http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100106/debtext/100106-0010.htm#10010649000002|column=210-211|access-date=12 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604192204/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100106/debtext/100106-0010.htm#10010649000002|archive-date=4 June 2011|url-status=dead}} all took place, one after the other, on 6 January.