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Section 224Part 7 — Offences Relating to Children

Definitions

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In this Part —
"child" means a person under the age of seventeen years and, in sections 228A to 228C, includes a person who appears to be under the age of seventeen years;
"child pornography" includes material that visually depicts —
a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
a person who appears to be a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct; or
realistic images representing a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
"computer data storage medium" means any article or material from which information is capable of being reproduced, with or without the aid of any other article or device;
"computer system" means a device that, or a group of interconnected or related devices, including the Internet, one or more of which, pursuant to a programme, performs automatic processing of data or any other function; and includes an ICT network as defined in section 2 of the Information and Communications Technology Authority Act (2026 Revision);
"film" includes any form of video-recording;
"pseudo-photograph" means an image, whether made or produced by computer-graphics or otherwise, which appears to be a photograph; and
"publish" includes —
distribute, transmit, disseminate, circulate, deliver, exhibit, lend for gain, exchange, barter, sell or offer for sale, let on hire or offer to let on hire, offer in any other way, or make available in any way;
have in possession or custody, or under control, for the purpose of doing an act referred to in paragraph (a); or
print, photograph, copy or make in any other manner (whether of the same or of a different kind or nature) for the purpose of doing an act referred to in paragraph (a).
For the purposes of this Part, the following shall be presumed to have responsibility for a child —
any person who —
has parental responsibility for the child (within the meaning of the Children Act (2012 Revision); or
is otherwise legally liable to maintain that child; and
any person who has care of that child.
A person who is presumed to be responsible for a child or young person by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) shall not be taken to have ceased to be responsible for the child by reason only that that person does not have care of that child.

Defined Terms

childchild pornographycomputer data storage mediumcomputer systemfilmpseudo-photographpublish

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