{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/4",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Indecent photographs of children: England and Wales",
  "text": "(1) The Protection of Children Act 1978 (c. 37) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 1B(1)(b) (exception for members of the Security Service)—\n(a) after “Security Service” insert “ or the Secret Intelligence Service ”;\n(b) for “the Service” substitute “ that Service ”.\n(3) After section 7(4) (meaning of photograph), insert—\n“(4A) References to a photograph also include—\n(a) a tracing or other image, whether made by electronic or other means (of whatever nature)—\n(i) which is not itself a photograph or pseudo-photograph, but\n(ii) which is derived from the whole or part of a photograph or pseudo-photograph (or a combination of either or both); and\n(b) data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into an image within paragraph (a);\nand subsection (8) applies in relation to such an image as it applies in relation to a pseudo-photograph.”\n(4) In section 7(9)(b) (meaning of indecent pseudo-photograph), for “a pseudo-photograph” substitute “ an indecent pseudo-photograph ”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/section/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:09.448635+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."
}