Crimes Act 1961

Crimes against personal privacy - Intimate visual recordings

216G: Intimate visual recording defined

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“An intimate visual recording is a secret picture or video of someone in a private situation or showing private body parts.”

An intimate visual recording is a picture or video taken of someone without their knowledge or permission. This can be a photo, video, or digital image made with any device.

You might be recorded in a place where you expect privacy. This could be when you are naked, partly naked, or wearing only underwear. It could also be when you are having sex, showering, using the toilet, or getting dressed or undressed.

An intimate visual recording can also be of your private body parts when you are naked or in underwear. This might be taken from under your clothes or through your outer clothes when it’s not okay to do so.

In section 216H, an intimate visual recording also includes live videos that aren’t saved. These can be sent in real-time without being stored on a device or in a way that can be played back later.

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Part 9A Crimes against personal privacy
Intimate visual recordings

216GIntimate visual recording defined

  1. In sections 216H to 216N, intimate visual recording means a visual recording (for example, a photograph, videotape, or digital image) that is made in any medium using any device without the knowledge or consent of the person who is the subject of the recording, and the recording is of—

  2. a person who is in a place which, in the circumstances, would reasonably be expected to provide privacy, and that person is—
    1. naked or has his or her genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breasts exposed, partially exposed, or clad solely in undergarments; or
      1. engaged in an intimate sexual activity; or
        1. engaged in showering, toileting, or other personal bodily activity that involves dressing or undressing; or
        2. a person's naked or undergarment-clad genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breasts which is made—
          1. from beneath or under a person's clothing; or
            1. through a person's outer clothing in circumstances where it is unreasonable to do so.
            2. In section 216H, intimate visual recording includes an intimate visual recording that is made and transmitted in real time without retention or storage in—

            3. a physical form; or
              1. an electronic form from which the recording is capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of any device or thing.
                Notes
                • Section 216G: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Crimes (Intimate Covert Filming) Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 75).