{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-scotland-act-2009/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-scotland-act-2009/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2009/9",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-scotland-act-2009",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Causing a young child to look at a sexual image",
  "text": "(1) If a person (“A”) intentionally and for a purpose mentioned in subsection (2) causes a child (“B”) who has not attained the age of 13 years to look at a sexual image, then A commits an offence, to be known as the offence of causing a young child to look at a sexual image.\n(2) The purposes are—\n(a) obtaining sexual gratification,\n(b) humiliating, distressing or alarming B.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a sexual image is an image (produced by whatever means and whether or not a moving image) of—\n(a) A engaging in a sexual activity or of a third person or imaginary person so engaging,\n(b) A's genitals or the genitals of a third person or imaginary person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/9/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:36.910809+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."
}