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Subscribe to PNLDNew offences have been inserted into the Sexual Offences Act 2003 from 6 February 2026, relating to creating (section 66E), or requesting the creation of (section 66F) and the inclusion/exclusion of a thing into (also section 66F), a purported intimate image of an adult without consent or reasonable belief in consent.
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