Section 66H Creating, or requesting the creation of, purported intimate image of adult: time limit for prosecutionF1

(1)

Notwithstanding section 127(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, a magistrates’ court may try an information or written charge relating to an offence under section 66E or 66F if the information is laid or the charge is issued—

(a)

before the end of the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which the offence was committed, and

(b)

before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which evidence which the prosecutor thinks is sufficient to justify a prosecution comes to the prosecutor’s knowledge.

(2)

A certificate signed by or on behalf of a prosecutor stating the date on which evidence described in subsection (1)(b) came to the prosecutor’s knowledge is conclusive evidence of that fact.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 66E-66H inserted (6.2.2026) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), ss. 138(2), 142(1); S.I. 2026/31, reg. 2