{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984/schedule-4/paragraph-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984/schedule-4/paragraph-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/12",
  "legislation_title": "Telecommunications Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/87",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The enactments specified in the following Table (which penalise the use of public telephone boxes for the purpose of making false calls for police assistance, giving false alarms of fire and the like) shall have effect as if—\n(a) for any reference to a call box of British Telecommunications’ telephone service,\n(b) for any reference to a telephone call box provided by British Telecommunications, and\n(c) for any reference to a British Telecommunications call box,\nthere were substituted a reference to a telephone call box provided by a public telecommunications operator.\nTable\nSection 176(2) of the Redcar Corporation Act 1938.\nSection 211(2) of the Clacton Urban District Council Act 1938.\nSection 89(2) of the Tiverton Corporation Act 1939.\nSection 101(2) of the Christchurch Corporation Act 1940.\nSection 154(2) of the Preston Corporation Act 1947.\nSection 173(2) of the Ipswich Corporation Act 1948.\nSection 178(2) of the Worcester Corporation Act 1951.\nSection 89(2) of the Nottinghamshire County Council Act 1951.\nSection 85(2) of the Berkshire County Council Act 1953.\nSection 97(2) of the Gloucestershire County Council Act 1956.\nSection 96(2) of the Leicester Corporation Act 1956.\nSection 70(2) of the Southampton Corporation Act 1960.\nSection 41(2) of the Hertfordshire County Council Act 1960.\nSection 30(3) of the Devon County Council Act 1961.\nSection 44(2) of the Durham County Council Act 1963.\nSection 29(2) of the Exeter Corporation Act 1966.\nSection 14(2) of the Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council Act 1970.\nSection 107(2) of the Teesside Corporation (General Powers) Act 1971.\nSection 63(2) of the Surrey County Council Act 1971.\nSection 61(2) of the Torbay Corporation (No. 2) Act 1971.\nSection 66(2) of the Oxfordshire County Council Act 1971.\n(2) Any enactment contained in a local Act which is not specified in the above Table, but is similar to any enactment so specified, shall have effect subject to the like amendment as is made by sub-paragraph (1) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1938 c. liv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1938 c. lxiii."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1939 c. lxv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1940 c. xxx."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1947 c. xlv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1948 c. xli."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1951 c. xliv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "1951 c. xlv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M9",
      "text": "1953 c. xli."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M10",
      "text": "1956 c. xl."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M11",
      "text": "1956 c. xlix."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M12",
      "text": "1960 c. xliii."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M13",
      "text": "1960 c. xlix."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M14",
      "text": "1961 c. xlv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M15",
      "text": "1963 c. xxxvii."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M16",
      "text": "1966 c. xv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M17",
      "text": "1970 c. xxiv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M18",
      "text": "1971 c. xv."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M19",
      "text": "1971 c. xxxvi."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M20",
      "text": "1971 c. lx."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M21",
      "text": "1971 c. lxiii."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
}