Telecommunications Act 1984
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(c) any offence under section 11(7) or 12(5) of this Act
involving or consisting in a contravention of a notice of
the Secretary of State in relation to any apparatus, not
being apparatus the use of which is likely to cause
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undue interference with any wireless telegraphy used
for the purpose of any safety of life service or any
purpose on which the safety of any person or of any
vessel, aircraft or vehicle may depend ; or
(d) any offence under section 1(5) or 7(4) of this Act ; or
(e) any offence under section 12A of this Act ; or
(f) any offence under this Act which is an offence under
section 5 or 8(2) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 1967 c. 72.
(failure to comply with notices under Part I of that
Act, giving false information, etc.) ;
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
level 3 on the standard scale.
(1B) Any person committing(a) any offence under section 1(1) of this Act other than
one within subsection (IA)(a) of this section ; or
(b) any offence under section 11(7) of this Act other than
one within subsection (1A)(c) of this section ;
shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding level
5 on the standard scale, or both.
(1C) Any person committing any other offence under this Act
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
level 5 on the standard scale.".
2. The following subsections shall be added at the end of section
14 of the 1949 Act" (8) In this section " the statutory maximum " and " the standard scale
(a) as respects England and Wales and Scotland, have the
meanings respectively given by sections 74 and 75 of
the Criminal Justice Act 1982; and
1982 c. 48.
(b) as respects Northern Ireland, have the same meanings
respectively as they have by virtue of those sections in
relation to England and Wales (reading references to
England and Wales as references to Northern Ireland).
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(9) For the purposes of the application of those sections by
virtue of subsection (8)(b) above(a) section 32(9) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (definition of " the prescribed sum " for provisions relating to
penalties on summary conviction for offences friable
either way) ;
(b) section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (the standard scale of fines for summary offences) ; and
(c) any order under section 143 of the Magistrates' Courts
Act 1980 that alters the sum specified in section 32(9)
of that Act or the sums specified in section 37(2) of the
Criminal Justice Act 1982;
shall extend to Northern Ireland.".
1980 c. 43.