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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-fraud-act-1997/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-fraud-act-1997/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/4",
  "legislation_title": "Telecommunications (Fraud) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-fraud-act-1997",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Short title, interpretation, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Fraud) Act 1997.\n(2) In this Act “the 1984 Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984.\n(3) This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.\n(4) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (25.7.2003 for specified purposes and 29.12.2003 for further specified purposes) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), ss. 406(6)(7), 408, 411(2), Sch. 19(1) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3(2) (as amended (8.12.2003) by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3))); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/4/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:28:22.320661+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."
}