Section 1: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires–

“child” means a person under the age of 18, “child pornography” means- (a) any photograph, film, video or other visual representation– (i) that shows a person who is or who is depicted as being under the age of 18 and is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in sexual activity; or (ii) whose dominant characteristic is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of the genital region of a person under the age of 18; (b) any audio representation of a person who is or is represented as being a child and who is engaged in or is represented as being engaged in sexual activity; (c) any written material, visual representation or audio representation that advocates, counsel or encourages sexual activity with children, irrespective of how or through what medium the representation has been produced, transmitted or conveyed and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes any representation produced by or from computer graphics or by any other electronic or mechanical means; “child prostitution” means the provision of any sexual service by a person under the age of 18 for financial or other reward, favour or compensation, whether paid to the child or some other person ; “indecent material” means any photograph, film, video book, image or other visual representation, including data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means, that offends against recognized standards of propriety and cultural values; “person with mental or physical disability “ means a person affected by any mental or physical disability irrespective of its cause, whether temporary or permanent and for the purpose of this Act includes a person affected by such mental or physical disability to the extent that he or she at the time of the alleged commission of the offence in question was- (a) unable to appreciate the nature and reasonably foreseeable consequences of any act prescribed in this Act; (b) able to appreciate the nature and reasonably foreseeable consequences of such an act but unable to act in accordance with that appreciation; (c) unable to resist the commission of such act: or (d) unable to communicate his or her unwillingness to participate in such act, “sexual manner” means done sexually, if a reasonable person would consider that– (a) whatever its circumstance or any person’s purpose in relation to it, it is because of its nature sexual; or (b) because of its nature it may be sexual and because of its circumstances or the purpose of any person in relation to it (or both) it is sexual; 2 3 Interpretation. “sexual penetration” means any act which causes the penetration to any extent of the vagina, anus or mouth of a person by the penis or any other part of the body of another person, or by an object; “touch” or touching” includes kissing, rubbing, feeling, fondling or caressing any part of a person’s body with any part of the body or with an object.