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2.25
Clause 25 of the Bill prohibits a person from posting or threatening to post an
intimate visual recording without the consent of the person who is the subject
of the intimate visual recording. Under clause 25, consent is taken to be consent
to a specific posting of such intimate visual recording and does not include the
consent of a child.
2.26
Clause 26 of the Bill provides that the Commission must review the legislation at
least once every 2 years and then provide a report of the review to the Minister.
With the pace in improvements made to technology, the law on online safety
must be updated to provide current and relevant provisions to modern day
circumstances.
2.27
Clause 27 of the Bill requires the Commission to provide the Minister a report
at the end of a financial year, of its operations for that year, for presentation to
Parliament.
2.28
Clause 28 of the Bill authorises the Minister to make regulations pursuant to the
new legislation prescribing matters that are required or permitted by the new
legislation to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
carrying out or giving effect to the new legislation and generally for achieving
the objectives of the new legislation.
3.0
MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY
3.1
The Act comes under the responsibility of the Minister responsible for
communications.
A. SAYED-KHAIYUM
Attorney-General
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