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Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act of 1990 is one of laws passed in the United States of America for protection of Children from Child pornography. Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act of 1990, Title III, forms one of the short titles of the Crime Control Act of 1990.

This enactment falls under title III of Pub.L. 101-647 which has no currently effective sections.

Legal debate leading to Enactment
Prior to enactment of the Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act of 1990 the Congress had passed the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act in 1988. That was done to overcome the deficiencies of law in terms of prosecuting child pornography offenders.

The 1988 Act required producers of materials containing visual depictions of explicit sexual activity to determine the names and ages of the performers, maintain records of this information, and indicate on each copy of the material where those records are kept.

However, rather than keeping penalties for non-compliance the statute created a rebuttable presumption that the performer was a minor. Soon thereafter, several parties challenged the constitutionality of these provisions. The district court ruled, inter alia, that significant parts of section 2257 violated the First Amendment.

During pendency of appeal, Congress responded by adopting the 1990 amendments. Accordingly the appellate court vacated the portion of the district court's judgment concerning the 1988 Act's recordkeeping provisions as moot.

In accordance with the 1990 amendments the C.F.R which lays down the rules for administrative procedures of the act were added as 28 CFR Part 75.