SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 5 Repair of minor Deficiencies in certain Acts
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In any proceedings against a person in respect of an offence under section 45 of the M1Telegraph Act 1863 F1 consisting in the improper divulging of the purport of a message or communication or an offence under section 20 of the M2Telegraph Act 1868 it shall be a defence for him to prove that the act constituting the offence was done F2in obedience to a warrant issued by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Interception of Communications Act 1985 or in pursuance of a requirement imposed by the Commissioner under section 8(3) of that Act.
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Subsection (2) of section 58 of the M3Post Office Act 1953 (warrants in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man) shall apply for the purposes of the foregoing sub-paragraph as it applies for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section.
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Section 63 of the Post Office Act 1953 shall have effect as if, in subsection (6) thereof, for the words “any stamp for denoting a current rate of postage of any country outside the British postal area” , there were substituted the words “any current stamp for denoting a rate of postage of any country outside the British postal area”.