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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 December 2025

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

307: Schedule 9, page 280, line 3, leave out sub-paragraph (2) and insert— “(2) In section 154A (purported intimate images to be treated as used for purposes of certain offences)—(a) in the heading, omit “Purported”;(b) for subsection (1) substitute—“(1) This section applies where a person commits an offence under a provision of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which is listed in column 1 of the table in subsection (2A).”;(c) in subsection (2), for “The purported intimate image to which the offence relates” substitute “The item specified in column 2 of the table in relation to that offence”;(d) after subsection (2) insert—“(2A) This is the table—

Provision of the Sexual Offences Act 2003

Item

Section 66AA(1), (2) or(3)

Photograph or film to which the offence relates

Section 66E

Purported intimate image to which the offence relates

Section 66F

Purported intimate image which is connected with the offence

Section 67A(2B)

Image to which the offence relates”;

(e) omit subsections (3) and (4).”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment amends section 154A of the Sentencing Code to add the provision the Bill currently inserts as section 154ZA. It also provides for images of breastfeeding recorded in circumstances which constitute an offence under section 67A(2B) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to be subject to deprivation orders.

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