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Crimes Act 1961

Crimes against personal privacy - Intimate visual recordings

216H: Prohibition on making intimate visual recording

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“It's not allowed to secretly take pictures or videos of someone's private parts or when they're naked.”

You are not allowed to make intimate visual recordings of another person on purpose or without thinking about the consequences. If you do this, you could go to prison for up to 3 years.

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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.”

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“It's against the law to keep private pictures or videos of someone without their permission.”

Part 9A Crimes against personal privacy
Intimate visual recordings

216HProhibition on making intimate visual recording

  1. Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years who intentionally or recklessly makes an intimate visual recording of another person.

Notes
  • Section 216H: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Crimes (Intimate Covert Filming) Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 75).