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These Regulations amend the National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations 1985, which make provision for recording in national police records convictions for offences punishable with imprisonment and for specified offences which are not so punishable.

The Regulations add to the offences specified in the 1985 Regulations offences under section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 (c. 27), for which the maximum penalty is a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, and section 139(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33), for which the maximum penalty is a fine not exceeding level 3. The Regulations come into force on 1st June 1989.