Penal Code 2019 Revision, indecent photographs and pseudo-photographs of children
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In force.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not make, possess, distribute, transmit, sell, advertise, import, export, or knowingly access an indecent photograph, pseudo-photograph, or other realistic image depicting a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, whether or not the image depicts an actual child.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Section 228A(1): possessing, taking, making or distributing an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for fifteen years. Section 228B(1): making, printing, publishing or possessing child pornography for publication, or possessing or accessing it, is liable to imprisonment for fifteen years; transmitting, making available, distributing, selling, advertising, importing, exporting, or possessing for those purposes, is liable to imprisonment for twenty-five years.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Royal Cayman Islands Police Service
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Section 228A makes it an offence, liable on conviction on indictment to fifteen years' imprisonment, to possess, take, make, distribute or show an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child.
A pseudo-photograph is defined as an image, whether made or produced by computer-graphics or otherwise, which appears to be a photograph, and is treated as showing a child if the impression it conveys is that the person shown is a child, even where some physical characteristics shown are those of an adult.
Section 228B separately criminalises making, publishing, transmitting, distributing, selling, advertising, importing, exporting, possessing or accessing child pornography, defined to include a realistic image representing a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, whether or not the image depicts an actual child.
The making, possession or access offence carries fifteen years' imprisonment, and the transmission, distribution, sale, advertising, import or export offence carries twenty-five years. The commencement date of these provisions is not stated in the text read; they are in force as part of the current 2019 Revision.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Penal Code (2019 Revision), Government of the Cayman Islands, archived copy