BahamasSexual Offences Act, child pornography offence
Sexual Offences Act, Ch. 99, Laws of The Bahamas, s. 16A (child pornography)
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An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Royal Bahamas Police Force, prosecuted by the Attorney-General
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not produce, or receive or disseminate for the purpose of distribution or sale, or possess, any visual representation, including a computer-generated one, that shows a person who is, or is depicted as being, under eighteen years old engaged in explicit sexual activity, or whose dominant characteristic is the depiction of a sexual organ or the buttocks of a person under eighteen.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Producing child pornography is liable to imprisonment for life (section 16A(1)). Receiving or disseminating for distribution or sale, possessing, or intentionally causing or inciting a person under eighteen to be involved in pornography, is liable to imprisonment for twenty years (section 16A(2)). No fine is specified for either tier; the Act's only stated sanction is imprisonment.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 16A punishes producing, receiving, disseminating, and possessing child pornography, and intentionally causing or inciting a minor's involvement in pornography, and states no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of anything.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 16A criminalises producing any child pornography, an offence liable to imprisonment for life, and separately criminalises receiving or disseminating child pornography for the purpose of distribution or sale, possessing child pornography, or intentionally causing or inciting a person under eighteen to be involved in pornography, each liable to imprisonment for twenty years.
Child pornography is defined as a photographic, film, video or other visual representation, whether or not it was made or transmitted by electronic or mechanical means, that shows a person who is, or is depicted as being, under eighteen engaged in explicit sexual activity, or whose dominant characteristic is the depiction of a sexual organ or the buttocks of a person under eighteen; the definition does not require the depicted person to be a real, identifiable individual, so a computer-generated or AI-synthesised depiction meeting it is capable of falling within the ban.
Section 16A was inserted by the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 2008 (No. 29 of 2008). No commencement notice for that Act has been located in the Official Gazette.
When LexLint raises it
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