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12 No. 30599

Act No. 32, 2007

Laws amended or repealed by section 68

Definitions and interpretation of Act

1. (1) In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise— “care giver” means any person who, in relation to a person who is mentally disabled, takes responsibility for meeting the daily needs of or is in substantial contact with such person;

“child” means—

a person under the age of 18 years; or

with reference to sections 15 and 16, a person 12 years or older but under the age of 16 years,

and “children” has a corresponding meaning;

“child pornography” means any image, however created, or any description or presentation of a person, real or simulated, who is, or who is depicted or described or presented as being, under the age of 18 years, of an explicit or sexual nature, whether such image or description or presentation is intended to stimulate erotic or aesthetic feelings or not, including any such image or description of such person—

engaged in an act that constitutes a sexual offence;

engaged in an act of sexual penetration;

engaged in an act of sexual violation;

engaged in an act of self-masturbation;

displaying the genital organs of such person in a state of arousal or stimulation;

unduly displaying the genital organs or anus of such person;

displaying any form of stimulation of a sexual nature of such person's breasts;