C1Part II Provision of Telecommunication Services

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Pt. II (ss. 5-46) excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 7(4)

Offences

43 Improper use of public telecommunication system.

1

A person who—

a

sends, by means of a public telecommunication system, a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or

b

sends by those means, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, a message that he knows to be false or persistently makes use for that purpose of a public telecommunication system,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to F1imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.

2

Subsection (1) above does not apply to anything done in the course of providing a F2programme service (within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1990).