Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA)

PECA 2016 § 22 — Child pornography

This page reproduces the English text stored for section 22 of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). The statute citation and data status are shown below.

Statutory text (English)

(1) Whoever intentionally produces, offers or makes available,
distributes or transmits through an information system or procures for himself or for another person or
without lawful justification possesses material in an information system, that visually depicts—
(a) a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
(b) a person appearing to be a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; or
(c) realistic images representing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; or
(d) discloses the identity of the minor,
shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 1[fourteen years and may extend
up to twenty years and with fine which shall not be less than one million rupees].

(2) Any aggrieved person or his guardian, where such person is a minor, may apply to the
Authority for removal, destruction of or blocking access to such information referred to in sub-section

(1) and the Authority, on receipt of such application, shall forthwith pass such orders as deemed
reasonable in the circumstances, including an order for removal, destruction, preventing transmission
of or blocking access to such information and the Authority may also direct any of its licensees to
secure such information including traffic data.

Source and verification

Source citation: PECA 2016 (Act XL of 2016) s.22: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PREVENTION OF ELECTRONIC CRIMES ACT, 2016' (incl. Act XXXVII of 2023 & Act II of 2025 amendments), p. 22, 23, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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Date not confirmed: Consolidated current text as published in the official Pakistan Code PDF (p. 22, 23) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment…

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