# Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, Article 2: Interpretation

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 1954 c.33 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(2) In this Order—
“child” subject to paragraph (3)(c) means a person under the age of eighteen;
“film” includes any form of video-recording;
“indecent photograph” includes an indecent film, a copy of an indecent photograph or film, and an indecent photograph comprised in a film;
“indecent pseudo‐photograph” includes—
(a)a copy of an indecent pseudo‐photograph; and
(b)data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into an indecent pseudo-photograph;
“photograph” includes—
(a)the negative as well as the positive version; and
(b)data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into a photograph;
“pseudo‐photograph” means an image, whether made by computer‐graphics or otherwise howsoever, which appears to be a photograph;
(2A) In this Order, references to a photograph also include—
(a) a tracing or other image, whether made by electronic or other means (of whatever nature)—
(i) which is not itself a photograph or pseudo-photograph, but
(ii) which is derived from the whole or part of a photograph or pseudo-photograph (or a combination of either or both); and
(b) data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into an image within paragraph (a);
and paragraph (3)(c) applies in relation to such an image as it applies in relation to a pseudo-photograph.
(3) For the purposes of this Order—
(a) a person is to be regarded as distributing an indecent photograph or pseudo‐photograph if he parts with possession of it to, or exposes or offers it for acquisition by, another person; and
(b) photographs (including those comprised in a film) shall, if they show children and are indecent, be treated as indecent photographs of children and so as respects pseudo‐photographs; and.
(c) if the impression conveyed by a pseudo‐photograph is that the person shown is a child, the pseudo‐photograph shall be treated as showing a child and so shall a pseudo‐photograph where the predominant impression conveyed is that the person shown is a child notwithstanding that some of the physical characteristics shown are those of an adult.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1047/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-2
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