Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
the person charged to prove that he took all reasonable steps and
exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.
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(3) Where the defence provided by subsection (2) above involves an allegation that the commission of the offence was due
to the act or default of another person, the person charged shall
not, without leave of the court, be entitled to rely on that defence
unless, within a period ending seven clear days before, the hearing,
he has served on the prosecutor a notice in writing giving such
information identifying or assisting in the identification of that
other person as was then in his possession.
(4) In any proceedings for an offence under section 86 above
it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he is a
person whose business it is to publish or arrange for the publication of advertisements and that he received the advertisement for
publication in the ordinary course of business and did not know
and had no reason to suspect that its publication would amount
to an offence under that section.
Miscellaneous and supplemental
88. It shall be the duty of the Director(a) to exercise such functions as may
Wireless
assigned to him telegraphy
functions of
be
under any enactment relating to wireless telegraphy ; Director.
and
(b) to provide the Secretary of State with such services as the
Secretary of State may require him to provide for
purposes connected with the exercise by the Secretary
of State of the Secretary of State's functions in relation
to wireless telegraphy.
89. The committee established under section 9(1)(a) of the Abolition of
Act (the advisory committee on interference with wireless advisory
telegraphy is hereby abolished ; and the provisions of that Act committee.
relating to that committee shall accordingly cease to have effect.
1949
90.-M The payment out of money provided by Parliament Radio
of any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in providing interference
service.
a radio interference service is hereby authorised.
(2) In this section " radio interference service " means a service consisting in the giving of advice and assistance (whether
free of charge or otherwise) to persons complaining of interference with wireless telegraphy.
91.-(1) Where proceedings for an offence under the 1949 Act Construction
or for the forfeiture of any apparatus under section 80 or 81 of references
above have been terminated by any decision of a description tof conclusion
against which an appeal will lie (whether by way of case stated proceedings.