Legal Issues
Up to the 1990s Mayfair occasionally — and legally, with the models' parental consent — featured nude models who were 16 or 17 years old at the time. These were, legally speaking, adult models, since Section 7(6) of the Protection of Children Act 1978 described a "child" as "a person under the age of 16". However, the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which came into force in May 2004 redefined a "child" in this context as a person under the age of 18, and retroactively made such photographs illegal.
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