Clause 47 - False alarms of fire
Fire and Rescue Services Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
The Under-Secretary must be wrong on that point. The person who, in good faith, makes the telephonic communication cannot be committing an offence under the Communications Act. It must be the person who, by his non-telephonic alarm, causes an innocent third party to make a guilty telephonic communication. I do not believe that he would be guilty under the Communications Act; it would be very interesting if he were.