Criminal Code Act 1983

In this Division:

consent means free and voluntary agreement.

distribute, in relation to an image, includes engaging in the following conduct, whether manually, electronically, digitally or in any other manner:

(a) publish, exhibit, show, communicate, send, supply or transmit the image to another person;

image means a moving or still image in any form.

Examples for definition image

1 A file stored on a computer.

2 A photo stored on a phone.

intimate image means an image that depicts or has been altered to appear to depict:

(a) a person engaged in a sexual act of a kind not ordinarily seen in public; or

(c) the genital or anal region of a person, whether bare or covered by underwear; or

(d) a breast, whether bare or covered by underwear, of a female person or of a transgender or intersex person who identifies as female.