SamoaCrimes Act 2013, child pornography offence reaching synthetic and represented depictions
Crimes Act 2013, No. 10 (Samoa), s. 82
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In force since 1 May 2013.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not produce, distribute, exhibit, possess, communicate, or knowingly access any pornographic material, including a computer-generated, simulated, or synthetic image, that depicts, presents, or represents a child, a person appearing to be a child, or an image representing a child, engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Section 82(1) makes it an offence, punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years, for a person without lawful justification to sell, deliver by way of hire, distribute, exhibit, print, possess, communicate, produce, offer, procure, or knowingly access indecent material on a child, including child pornography. No provision in section 82 states a fine as an alternative to imprisonment, so no penalty_structure is recorded; the sole sanction is the imprisonment term.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Samoa Police Service
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 82 defines the offence, its indecent-material and child pornography definitions, and its penalty; it states nothing about logging, record-keeping, or an audit trail.
- Kind
- None
- As of
- 22 September 2026
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
What this law does
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Section 82(1) makes it an offence, punishable by imprisonment of up to 7 years, for a person without lawful justification to sell, distribute, exhibit, print, possess, communicate, produce, offer, or knowingly access indecent material on a child, including through an electronic system.
Section 82(2) defines child pornography as pornographic material that depicts, presents, or represents a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, a person appearing to be a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, or images representing a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and includes any audio, visual, or text pornographic material, so the offence reaches a computer-generated, simulated, or otherwise synthetic depiction of a child in sexually explicit conduct as well as a photograph of a real child. The section defines a child as a person 16 years and under.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Text of the Crimes Act 2013, Samoa Consolidated Legislation 2020, PacLII, archived copy
archived copy
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