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58.	Evidence of previous consistent statements
59.	Evidence of delay in reporting
60.	Court may not treat evidence of complainant with caution on account of nature of offence
61.	Extra-territorial jurisdiction

Part 3: National policy framework

62.	National policy framework
63.	Establishment of Inter-sectoral Committee
64.	Meetings of Committee
65.	Responsibilities, functions and duties of Committee

Part 4: National instructions and directives, regulations and repeal and amendment of laws

66.	National instructions and directives
67.	Regulations
68.	Repeal and amendment of laws

Part 5: Transitional provisions

69.	Transitional provisions

Part 6: Transitional provisions relating to trafficking in persons for sexual purposes

70.	Application and interpretation
71.	Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes
72.	Short title and commencement

Schedule

Laws amended or repealed by section 68

Chapter 1

Definitions and objects

Definitions and interpretation of Act

1. (1) In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise—

“care giver” means any person who, in relation to a person who is mentally disabled, takes responsibility for meeting the daily needs of or is in substantial contact with such person;

“child” means—

(a)

a person under the age of 18 years; or

(b)

with reference to sections 15 and 16, a person 12 years or older but under the age of 16 years,

and “children” has a corresponding meaning;

“child pornography” means any image, however created, or any description or presentation of a person, real or simulated, who is, or who is depicted or described or presented as being, under the age of 18 years, of an explicit or sexual nature, whether such image or description or presentation is intended to stimulate erotic or aesthetic feelings or not, including any such image or description of such person—

(a)

engaged in an act that constitutes a sexual offence;

(b)

engaged in an act of sexual penetration;

(c)

engaged in an act of sexual violation;

(d)

engaged in an act of self-masturbation;

(e)

displaying the genital organs of such person in a state of arousal or stimulation;

(f)

unduly displaying the genital organs or anus of such person;

(g)

displaying any form of stimulation of a sexual nature of such person's breasts;