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c. 56
Interception
" intercepted
of Communications Act 1985
material ", in relation to a warrant, means
the communications intercepted in obedience to that
warrant ;
" person " includes any organisation and any association
or combination of persons ;
"public telecommunications operator" and "public telecommunication system " have the same meanings as
in the 1984 Act ;
" public telecommunication service " means a telecommunication service provided by means of a public
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1982 c. 48.
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1949 c. 54.
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1971 c. 80.
telecommunication system ;
statutory maximum " has the meaning given by section
74 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 ;
telecommunication service " has the same meaning as in
the 1984 Act ;
the Tribunal " means the tribunal established under
section 7 above ;
wireless telegraphy " has the same meaning as in the
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 ;
working day " means any day other than a Saturday, a
Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which
is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial
Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom.
(2) For the purposes of this Act a communication which is in
the course of its transmission otherwise than by means of a
public telecommunication system shall be deemed to be in the
course of its transmission by means of such a system if its
mode of transmission identifies it as a communication which(a) is to be or has been transmitted by means of such a
system ; and
(b) has been sent from, or is to be sent to, a country or
territory outside the British Islands.
For the purposes of this Act conduct which constitutes or,
the United Kingdom, would constitute one or
more offences shall be regarded as serious crime if, and only
(a) it involves the use of violence, results in substantial financial gain or is conduct by a large number of persons in
pursuit of a common purpose ; or
(b) the offence or one of the offences is an offence for which
a person who has attained the age of twenty-one and
(3)
if it took place in
if-
has no previous convictions could reasonably be expected to be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of
three years or more.