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Central African Republic
Code Pénal Centrafricain, article 111 (pornographie impliquant des enfants)
Code Pénal Centrafricain, Loi n° 10.001 du 6 janvier 2010, art. 111
In force.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not generate, produce, or distribute a pornographic representation of a child, whether the depiction is of a real child or is drawn, virtual, or computer-generated; whether the article reaches a purely synthetic depiction has not been tested in a reported Central African decision.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Two to five years' imprisonment and a fine of FCFA 100,002 to 2,000,000 (the low figure recurs identically across many unrelated Penal Code articles and may be a printing or scanning artifact for FCFA 100,000), doubled on repeat conduct (art. 111).
Penalty structure
Fine only; the same article also carries two to five years' imprisonment instead of or in addition to the fine, doubled on repeat conduct. The printed low end of the fine range (100,002) recurs identically across many unrelated Penal Code articles and may be a scanning artifact for 100,000.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- XAF
- Fixed cap
- 2,000,000
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does 'actes pornographiques à l'égard des enfants' in article 111 reach a virtual, drawn, or purely computer-generated depiction of a child, or does it require an actual child as the depicted subject?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 111 punishes pornographic acts against children and states no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of anything.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 111 opens by defining pornography as a complaisant representation of subjects in a literary, artistic, or cinematographic work that offends against good morals, and then makes it an offence for anyone to be guilty of pornographic acts with respect to children, punishable by two to five years' imprisonment and a fine, doubled on repeat conduct.
Because the article defines the underlying concept of pornography by reference to a representation in a work rather than by reference to conduct against a real child, its wording does not on its face exclude a virtual, drawn, or computer-generated depiction of a child from the offence, so a service generating that kind of synthetic content plausibly falls within the ban; no Central African appellate decision construing the point has been located, so this is a reading of the text rather than a settled interpretation.
The Code has no separate provision addressing AI-generated content, algorithmic transparency, or synthetic-media labelling. No notice or order stating the day on which the Code, and article 111 within it, came into force has been located.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates content with AI or publishes adult content.
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