As a disclaimer, I am not at all an expert on UK law and this is just my strictly unprofessional opinion based on the little I understand about the subject. My limited understanding is that the law has cleared the House of Lords and is going through the final processing to be fully clarified and adopted. I believe it can still be fine tuned for the sake of clarity, but the core text has been decided on. As the language stands currently, I believe it makes possession of content of the named nature illegal. So if the content meets the criteria in the law, then it will be illegal to access, create, possess, etc. that content. Among the content to be included is age-play content, step/incest content, and breath play content. I do believe that the step content only applies to content in which one or more of the roles are intended to represent a minor or could easily be interpreted as such, but that leaves a lot of grey area, I'm sure. I believe this will also apply to websites accessible from the UK, depending upon the relations between the UK and whatever country the website is based in. In any case, someone accessing the content from within the UK would be in violation of the law. I imagine that different non-UK based websites will take different strategies to stay compliant with the law, to include not allowing the content on their websites, blocking UK traffic but allowing the content, or using a tagging system that prevents people in the UK from accessing illegal content. Each have their own challenges and tradeoffs, dpending upon the website and its audience makeup. I also believe that the content will be designated as a priority offense under the Online Safety Act, meaning website owners have a proactive duty to search and remove the content instead of waiting for it to be reported to them.
It is the Crime and Policing Bill, soon to be the Crime and Policing Act.
