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1.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-5-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>Regulations under <ref href="#section-5-2">subsection (2)</ref> may specify further circumstances in which making facilities available in connection with electronic communications or the storage of data is, or is not, to be capable of constituting the touting offence.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer></body></act></akomaNtoso>