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Almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940, Art. 210.a, Simulated and Non-Real Child Sexual Abuse Material

Almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940 (General Penal Code), 210. gr. a, 5. mgr., eins og henni var breytt með lögum nr. 29/2022

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In force since 9 June 2022.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 6 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not produce, import, acquire, distribute, or possess image material depicting a person 18 years of age or older acting sexually while playing the role of a child, or a non-real depiction of a child in such material, such as a cartoon, an illustration, or another simulated or AI-generated image, under Almenn hegningarlög Article 210.a.
  • This duty binds a synthetic or AI-generated depiction on the same terms as any other image; the fact that no real child appears in it is not a defense.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Fines or imprisonment of up to two years for producing, importing, acquiring, distributing, or possessing a simulated or non-real depiction of the kind described (210. gr. a, 5. mgr.); the article's separate offense covering an actual child's sexual abuse or exploitation carries fines or imprisonment of up to six years (210. gr. a, 1.-2. mgr.).

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Article 210.a (read in full, all paragraphs) creates the child sexual abuse material offences and their exceptions; no clause names a log, record or audit trail, or requires demonstrating, proving or producing anything. The Penal Code's general extraterritoriality rule (6. gr.) is a different, general-part provision.

Kind
None
As of
22 September 2026

Who checks it

Audit expectation

none

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Article 210.a punishes whoever produces, imports, acquires for himself or others, distributes, or possesses image material showing the sexual abuse of a child, or showing a child in a sexual manner, with fines or imprisonment of up to six years, and imposes the same penalty on whoever views such material online or through other information or telecommunications technology.

A separate paragraph, added by Act No. 29/2022, punishes whoever produces, imports, acquires, distributes, or possesses image material showing persons 18 years of age or older acting sexually while playing the role of a child, or a depiction of a child in such material even though it is not real, such as in a cartoon or another simulated image, with fines or imprisonment of up to two years; this paragraph binds a synthetic or AI-generated depiction on the same terms as a hand-drawn one, since it turns on the image showing what is not real rather than on how the image was produced.

The article separately exempts consensual, close-in-age sexting among 15-to-17-year-olds and a 15-to-17-year-old's own self-distributed material from both the abuse and viewing offenses.

When LexLint raises it

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