Nuisance Phone Calls

Act

S1 43(1) Telecommunications Act 1984

Points to prove

send

- by public telecommunications system

- message/other matter

- grossly offensive message

- OR indecent/obscene/menacing character

(b) send

- by public telecommunications system

- to cause another

- annoyance/inconvenience/needless anxiety

- a message knowing it to be false

- OR persistently make use of

- public telecommunication system

- for that purpose

Penalty

Summary 6months

Racially aggravated penalty

Not applicable

Power of arrest

No specific