Malaysia legislation

Section 7

of *SEXUAL OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN ACT 2017

Section 7

Any person who uses or causes to be used a child in the preparation to make or produce, or in the preparation to direct the making or production of, or in the making or production of, or in the directing of the making or production of, any child sexual abuse material commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years and shall also be punished with whipping of not less than five strokes.

Explanation—This section does not apply where the preparation to make or produce or the preparation to direct the making or production of child sexual abuse material or where the making or production or the directing of the making or production of child sexual abuse material uses or causes to be used a person appearing to be a child.

(a)

A entices Z, a child through a fake singing competition advertisement and uses Z in making child sexual abuse material. A is guilty of an offence under this section by using a child in the making of child sexual abuse material. A is also guilty of an offence under section 5 by making child sexual abuse material.

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(b)

A offers his six-year-old daughter Z, to B for Z to be used in the production of child sexual abuse material for a certain amount of money. Z was used in B’s production of child sexual abuse material. A is guilty of an offence under this section by causing Z, a child to be used in the production of child sexual abuse material. B is guilty of an offence under this section by using Z, a child, in the production of child sexual abuse material and under section 5 by producing child sexual abuse material.

Exchanging, publishing, etc., child sexual abuse material