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Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
PART
I
in the exercise of functions assigned or transferred by
or under section 50 below ;
and subsection (2) above does not apply in relation to anything
done in the exercise of functions assigned by section 10(3) or (8)
or 52 below.
(b)
(4) In this section " international transit service " means a
telecommunication service consisting in the conveyance of
sounds, visual images or signals which have been conveyed from,
and are to be conveyed to, places outside the United Kingdom.
Meaning of
4.-(1) In this Act "telecommunication system"
"telecommuni- system
cation
rystem f, and
related
expressions.
means a
for the conveyance, through the agency of electric,
electro-chemical
magnetic,
electro-magnetic,
or electro-
of-
mechanical energy,
(a) speech, music and other sounds ;
(b) visual images ;
(c) signals serving for the impartation (whether as between
persons and persons, things and things or persons and
things) of any matter otherwise than in the form of
sounds or visual images ; or
(d) signals serving for the actuation or control of machinery
or apparatus.
(2) For the purposes of this Act telecommunication apparatus
which is situated in the United Kingdom and(a) is connected to but not comprised in a telecommunication system ; or
(b) is connected to and comprised in a telecommunication
system which extends beyond the United Kingdom,
shall be regarded as a telecommunication system and any person
who controls the apparatus shall be regarded as running the
system.
(3)
"
In this
Act-
commercial activities connected with telecommunications "
means any of the following, that is to say, the provision
of telecommunication services, the supply or export of
telecommunication apparatus and the production or
acquisition of such apparatus for supply or export;
telecommunication apparatus " means (except where the
extended definition in Schedule 2 to this Act applies)
apparatus constructed or adapted for use(a) in transmitting or receiving anything falling
within paragraphs (a) to 0 of subsection (1) above
which is to be or has been conveyed by means of a
telecommunication system ; or