SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17Minor and Consequential Amendments

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

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1

Section 163 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33) (local authority powers to provide closed-circuit television) shall be amended as follows.

2

For subsection (1)(b) there shall be substituted—

b

providing within their area an electronic communications service which is distributed—

i

only to persons on a single set of premises; and

ii

by an electronic communications network which is wholly within those premises and is not connected to an electronic communications network any part of which is outside those premises;

3

In subsection (1)(c), for “telecommunications system” there shall be substituted “ electronic communications network or electronic communications service ”.

4

After subsection (3), there shall be inserted—

3A

For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)—

a

a set of premises is a single set of premises if, and only if, the same person is the occupier of all the premises; and

b

two or more vehicles are capable of constituting a single set of premises if, and only if, they are coupled together.

5

In subsection (4), for the definition of “telecommunications system” there shall be substituted—

“premises” includes a vehicle; and

“vehicle” includes a vessel, aircraft or hovercraft.