{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003/section-66I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003/section-66I.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/42",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003",
  "path": "section/66I",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66I",
  "heading": "Making or supplying purported intimate image generators",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) makes or adapts a thing, or\n(b) supplies or offers to supply a thing,\nfor use as a generator of purported intimate images.\n(2) A “generator of purported intimate images” is a thing for creating, or facilitating the creation of, purported intimate images of a person.\n(3) A person makes, adapts, supplies, or offers to supply a thing for use as a generator of purported intimate images if a reasonable person (having regard to all the circumstances) would consider that they do so.\n(4) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that they took all reasonable steps to prevent the thing being used for creating, or facilitating the creation of, purported intimate images of a person without the person’s consent.\n(5) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or a fine (or both);\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or a fine (or both).\n(6) Section 72(1) applies in relation to an act which, if done in England and Wales, would constitute an offence under this section as if references to a United Kingdom national included—\n(a) a body incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom, or\n(b) an unincorporated association formed under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.\n(7) In this section—\n“purported intimate image” of a person, and references to creating a purported intimate image of a person, have the same meaning as in section 66E;\n“thing” includes a program, information in electronic form and a service.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 66I-66L inserted (29.6.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 99(2), 255(1); S.I. 2026/689, reg. 2(1)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/66I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:48.870823+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."
}