{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-1978/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-1978/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/37",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Children Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-1978",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Evidence.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In proceedings under this Act relating to indecent photographs of children a person is to be taken as having been a child at any material time if it appears from the evidence as a whole that he was then under the age of 18.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(1) repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), s. 119(2), Sch. 7 Pt. V"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(2) repealed by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(3) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(2), Sch. 10 para. 37(2); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch1 Appendix B"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 2(3) substituted (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), ss. 45(2), 141; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 1(3), 2(3), 3, 7 amended by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 160(4), Sch. 8 para. 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:48.620806+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."
}