C1Part II Provision of Telecommunication Services
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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).
Pt. II (ss. 5-46) excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 7(4)