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Law / Timor-Leste

Penal Code, Article 176 (Child Pornography)

Penal Code of Timor-Leste (Decree-Law No. 19/2009), Article 176

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
General

What it requires

  • Do not use an AI system to generate, expose, or represent a minor under 17 performing real or simulated sexual activity, or to exhibit the sexual activity or sexual organs of a minor by any other means.
  • Do not produce, distribute, disseminate, import, export, offer, sell, or possess any image, video, or file containing such content, whether the depicted minor is a real person or not.

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
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Article 176(1) and 176(2) each carry 3 to 10 years imprisonment; no fine is stated as an alternative or in addition to imprisonment for either subarticle.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Article 176 punishes using, exposing or representing a minor performing sexual activity, and producing, distributing or possessing material for that purpose. Neither subarticle creates a duty to keep, create or produce a compliance log or record; the 'document or record' language in subarticle (2) names the medium the offence covers (an object the crime is committed with or through), not something a person must keep.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Article 176(1) punishes with 3 to 10 years imprisonment any person who, for predominantly sexual purposes, uses, exposes, or represents a minor aged less than 17 years performing any sexual activity, whether real or simulated, or by any other means exhibits the sexual activity or sexual organs of a minor.

Article 176(2) applies the same penalty to producing, distributing, disseminating, importing, exporting, offering, selling, or possessing any medium of communication, instrument, document, or record for those purposes or with the aim of disseminating such acts.

The article's own text does not require the depicted minor to be a real, identifiable person, so its "whether real or simulated" and "by any other means" language reaches a computer-generated or AI-synthesised depiction of a child in the same terms as one derived from a real photograph.

When LexLint raises it

When your app profile says your app generates images with AI, generates video with AI or publishes adult content.

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