Member

This legislation with the amendments proposed performs three principal tasks. With respect to those who serve us in various departments in this Government, it has been far too difficult to establish those three principal tasks. First, they establish consent as the determinant of criminality in these sexual abuse cases, as it already is in all other sexual abuse cases, thereby removing the burden on victims of engaging with the challenge of proving motive, which they should never have been asked to engage in. Secondly, they criminalise the solicitation or commission of sexually explicit deepfakes—I prefer the word “commission”, because there is a financial element for some of the people who create them solicited by others. Thirdly, in the guise of Amendment 6, they open the possibility of jail time for the perpetrator if the court regards that as appropriate in the specific case.