CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 91HAB Encouraging use of a digital platform to deal with child abuse material

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 91HAB

91HAB Encouraging use of a digital platform to deal with child abuse material

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if--

(a) the person is 18 or more years of age, and

(b) the person encourages another person to use a digital platform, and

(c) the person intends that other person to use the digital platform to deal with child abuse material.

: Maximum penalty--imprisonment for 14 years.

(2) In determining whether a person has encouraged another person to use a digital platform with the intention of the person using it to deal with child abuse material in proceedings for an offence against this section, it is not necessary to prove--

(a) the identity of the person encouraged to use the digital platform to deal with child abuse material, or

(b) that another person in fact used the digital platform to deal with child abuse material, or

(c) if another person did in fact use the digital platform to deal with child abuse material, that it was the defendant's encouragement that caused the person to do so.