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The Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) (Direct Marketing) Regulations 1998
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- 1998 No. 3170
- PART II
- Regulation 8
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Use of fax for direct marketing purposes—communications on lines of subscribers who are individuals
8.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to the use of publicly available telecommunications services for the communication of material, for direct marketing purposes, by means of facsimile transmission where the called line is that of a subscriber who is an individual; and the provisions of this regulation and those of regulation 7 are without prejudice to each other.
(2) A person shall not use, or instigate the use of, publicly available telecommunications services, and a subscriber to such services shall not permit his line to be used, as mentioned in paragraph (1), except where the called line is that of a subscriber who has previously notified the caller that he consents to such communications as are there mentioned being sent by the caller in question on that line.
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