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3. In section 32 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980–
(a)for subsection (1) there shall be substituted the following subsection:–
“(1) On summary conviction of any offence under section 20 of the Telegraph Act 1868(1) (disclosing or intercepting messages) or section 3 of the Submarine Telegraph Act 1885(2) (damaging submarine cables) a person shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum or both.”;
(b)in subsection (2), for the words “listed in Schedule 1 to this Act, being” there shall be substituted the words “an offence mentioned in subsection (1) above but which is”;
(c)subsections (5) and (8) shall be omitted;
(d)in subsection (9), after the words “In this section” there shall be inserted the following definition:–
““enactment” means
and in the definition of “relevant enactment”, after the words “same Session” there shall be inserted the words “of Parliament”.
1868 c.110.
1885 c.49.
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