Offence of producing child pornography

(1) A person who finances, produces, reproduces, publishes or makes any written material, photographic material, video, film, electronic publication, virtual or other media of any form of child pornography commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of ten years. (2) A person who coerces, induces, encourages, pays for, or exchanges any material benefit for, or otherwise causes any child to pose for any photographic material or to participate in any pornographic video or film or audio, visual or other electronic representation of any child involved in any form of child pornography commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of ten years. (3) A person who imports, exports, distributes, finances, offers, trades, sells or possesses whether for personal use or for distribution or sale via printed media or electronic media including video, compact disks, digital video disks, phone messaging, computer image, internet, virtual media or by any other means any form of child pornography commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of twelve years. (4) It is not a defence to a charge under this section that the accused believed that a person shown in the representation that is alleged to constitute child pornography was or was depicted as being eighteen years of age or more, nor shall it be a defence that the person depicted in the visual representation is eighteen years or older if the person was shown to represent a child at the time of making the said pornographic representation.