General Principles of the BBFC

The BBFC follows two basic principles:

• Works should be allowed to reach to the widest audience that is appropriate
• Adults should be free to choose what they say as long as it remains within the law

These call in the considerations of:

• Whether the material is in conflict with the law
• Whether the material can cause harm to the concerned catergory, both physical and moral
• Whether the availability of the material to the concerned age group is broadly socially considered as unacceptable (this is especially relevant to bad language)