Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
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PART
VII
(b) as applying to any information which has been so
published or has been made public as part of such a
report.
(5) Any person who discloses any information in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the
statutory maximum ;
(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.
Offences by
bodies
corporate.
102.-(1) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under
this Act and that offence is proved to have been committed with
the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect
on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar
officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting
to act in any such capacity he, as well as the body corporate,
shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded
against and punished accordingly.
(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by
its members, subsection (1) above shall apply in relation to
the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body
corporate.
Summary
proceedings-
Orders and
schemes,
103. Proceedings for any offence under this Act which is punishable on summary conviction may be commenced at any time
within twelve months next after the commission of the offence.
104.-(1) Any power of the Secretary of State to make an order
or a scheme under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory
instrument subject, except in the case of an order under section
2, 60(1) or (3), 69(2) or 110(5), or paragraph 1 of Schedule 5, to
annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(2) Any order or scheme under this Act may make different
provision with respect to different cases or descriptions of case.
(3) This section does not apply to the power of the Secretary
of State to make vesting orders under section 36 above.
Financial
provisions.
105. There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament
any administrative expenses incurred by the Secretary of State
in consequence of the provisions of this Act and any increase
attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of money so
provided under any other Act.