Section 40D Other offences relating to prison securityF1C1

takes a photograph, or makes a sound-recording, inside a prison, or

transmits, or causes to be transmitted, any image F2, sound or information from inside a prison by electronic communications for simultaneous reception outside the prison,

brings or otherwise conveys a restricted document out of a prison or causes such a document to be brought or conveyed out of a prison, or

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a device capable of transmitting or receiving images, sounds or information by electronic communications (including a mobile telephone);

a component part of such a device;

an article designed or adapted for use with such a device (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds or information may be recorded).

he reasonably believed that he had authorisation to do the act in respect of which the proceedings are brought, or

in all the circumstances there was an overriding public interest which justified the doing of that act.

on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine (or both); or

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding F5the general limit in a magistrates’ court or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both).