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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abusive-behaviour-and-sexual-harm-scotland-act-2016/section-3",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abusive-behaviour-and-sexual-harm-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation of section 2",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 2, a person is in an “intimate situation” if—\n(a) the person is engaging or participating in, or present during, an act which—\n(i) a reasonable person would consider to be a sexual act, and\n(ii) is not of a kind ordinarily done in public, or\n(b) the person's genitals, buttocks or breasts are exposed or covered only with underwear.\n(2) In section 2—\n“film” means a moving image in any form, whether or not the image has been altered in any way, that was originally captured by making a recording, on any medium, from which a moving image may be produced, and includes a copy of the image,\n“photograph” means a still image in any form, whether or not the image has been altered in any way, that was originally captured by photography, and includes a copy of the image.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 3.7.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/183, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/22/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:25.429051+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}