Part 6: Offences involving violent or abusive behaviour Section 69: Threats to disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress
Section 69 amends the offence under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, of disclosing a private sexual photograph or film with intent to cause distress to an individual who appears in the photograph or film, so as to include threats to disclose private sexual photographs or films.
	New section 33(2A) of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (as inserted by subsection (5)) ensures that the prosecution will not have to prove the private sexual photograph or film referred to in the threat exists so long as the individual is said to feature in them.
	The three specific defences to the original substantive offence at section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 would be available in relation to any threat to disclose. Those three defences are: the disclosure was for the purposes of preventing, detecting or investigating crime; was made in the course of publication of journalistic material; and was believed to be in the public interest; or the image was previously disclosed for reward with the subject’s consent.
	Subsection (10) makes consequential amendment to Schedule 8 to the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (which relates to providers of information society services).