Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2025

Detailed Note

The 2025 Criminal Law amendments expressly bring AI-generated intimate imagery (nudity, sexual imagery) and child sexual exploitation material into the criminal code. Notable innovations: (1) even where the "person" in the image is fictitious (AI-generated rather than a real individual), the offence still applies if the depicted person appears to be a minor; (2) production, possession and distribution all constitute offences; (3) aggravated penalties apply to deepfake intimate imagery targeting identifiable individuals. The amendment closes the legal gap for the new category of "AI-generated non-existent persons".