{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-13/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-13/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 66A insert—\n“Sharing semen-defaced image\n66AA (1) A person (A) commits an offence if—\n(a) A intentionally shares a semen-defaced image of another person (B),\n(b) B does not consent to the sharing of the semen-defaced image, and\n(c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.\n(2) A “semen-defaced image” of a person (B) is—\n(a) a photograph or film which—\n(i) shows, or appears to show, B, and\n(ii) has, or appears to have, semen on it or in its immediate vicinity, or\n(b) a photograph or film of a photograph or film within paragraph (a).\n(3) “Photograph” includes the negative as well as the positive version.\n(4) “Film” means a moving image.\n(5) References to a photograph or film also include—\n(a) an image, whether made or altered by computer graphics or in any other way, which appears to be a photograph or film,\n(b) a copy of a photograph, film or image within paragraph (a), and\n(c) data stored by any means which is capable of conversion into a photograph, film or image within paragraph (a).\n(6) A person “shares” a semen-defaced image if the person, by any means, gives or shows it to another person or makes it available to another person.\n(7) But a provider of an internet service by means of which a semen-defaced image is shared is not to be regarded as a person who shares it.\n(8) For the purposes of subsection (1)—\n(a) “consent” to the sharing of a semen-defaced image includes general consent covering the particular act of sharing as well as specific consent to the particular act of sharing, and\n(b) whether a belief is reasonable is to be determined having regard to all the circumstances including any steps A has taken to ascertain whether B consents.\n(9) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) to prove that the person had a reasonable excuse for sharing the semen-defaced image.\n(10) A person (A) who shares a semen-defaced image of another person (B) does not commit an offence under subsection (1) if—\n(a) the semen-defaced image had, or A reasonably believes that it had, been previously publicly shared, and\n(b) B had, or A reasonably believes that A had, consented to the previous sharing.\n(11) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum term for summary offences or a fine (or both).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/schedule/13/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:35:03.708512+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."
}