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photograph or pseudo-photograph, or intends to do
so,
shall commit an offence.
(2)

(3)

Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection
(1)(b) or (c), it shall be a defence for him to prove that (a)

he had reasonable grounds for distributing or showing
the photograph or pseudo-photograph or having them
in his possession; and

(b)

that he had not himself seen the photograph or
pseudo-photograph and did not know, nor had any
cause to suspect, it to be indecent.

Where (a)

the impression conveyed by the pseudo-photograph
is that the person shown is a child; or

(b)

the predominant impression conveyed is that the
person shown is a child, notwithstanding that some of
the physical characteristics shown are those of an
adult,

the pseudo-photograph shall be treated for all purposes of
this Act as showing a child.
(c)
(7)

in section 18, by inserting immediately
subsection (6), the following new subsection –

after

The Court before which a person is convicted of an offence under
section 15 may, in addition to any penalty imposed, order –
(a)

the forfeiture of any apparatus, article or thing which is the
subject matter of the offence or is used in connection with
the commission of the offence;

(b)

that the material subject matter of the offence be no longer
stored on and made available through the computer
system, or that the material be deleted.

(d)

by inserting immediately after section 19, the following new
section 19A

Extradition

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