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RestrictStartDate="2007-02-08"><Number>Part VIII</Number><Title> Provisions Relating to Wireless Telegraphy</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2007-02-08"><Title> Prohibition of acts facilitating unauthorised broadcasting.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/170" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/170" id="section-170"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-0498bc5404024534dccf2b4370f35769"/><CommentaryRef Ref="c16548691"/><CommentaryRef Ref="key-79ea814ed7e7f64c7161697e9021c0f4"/><CommentaryRef Ref="key-b040e9906a33c229744bd691f955f3fe"/>170</Pnumber><P1para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c16548691" Type="C"><Para><Text>Ss. 168-173 extended (with modifications) (1.6.1994) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/1064" id="c01477" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1994" Number="1064">S.I. 1994/1064</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c01478" CitationRef="c01477" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/1064/article/3/2" SectionRef="article-3-2">art. 3(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c01479" CitationRef="c01477" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/1064/schedule/part/II" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-part-II">Sch. 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