Editing Protection of Children Act 1978 (section)

== Amendments ==

=== 1994 ===
Originally, in 1978, the Act referred to "photographs". 
In 1994, to cover also actions involving [[image]]s created or altered with machines like computers, the Act was amended by the [[Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994]], to refer to taking, or ''making'', "photographs or pseudo-photographs", etcetera.

=== 2008 ===
The Act was further amended by the [[Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008]],<ref>Section 69, not yet in force.</ref> which provided that "photograph" includes:

"a tracing or other image, whether made by electronic or other means (of whatever nature)— 
(i) which is not itself a photograph or pseudo-photograph, but 
(ii) which is derived from the whole or part of a photograph or pseudo-photograph (or a combination of either or both)," and including data stored on a computer disc or by any other form of electronic means that can be converted into such an image.