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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003-consequential-amendments-order-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2155",
  "legislation_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003-consequential-amendments-order-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Definition of electronic communications",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to the following provisions—\n(a) regulation 3(4) of the Petroleum Revenue Tax (Nomination Scheme for Disposals and Appropriations) Regulations 1987;\n(b) regulation 2(1) of the Retirement Benefit Schemes (Information Powers) Regulations 1995;\n(c) regulation 2 of the Donations to Charity by Individuals (Appropriate Declarations) Regulations 2000;\n(d) regulation 1(2) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001;\n(e) paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003.\n(2) In the provisions to which this paragraph applies for the definition of “electronic communications” there shall be substituted—\n““electronic communications” includes any communications conveyed by means of an electronic communications network.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1338, amended by S.I. 2000/1072; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3103, amended by S.I. 2002/3006."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2074."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1004."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/492."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/490",
      "affecting_title": "The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2013/264",
      "affecting_title": "The Overhead Lines (Exemption) (Scotland) Regulations 2013"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2155/schedule/1/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:00:59.196367+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}