(1) Section 34C of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (offences relating to prison security) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for the ‘or’ at the end of paragraph (a) substitute—

‘(aa) takes a photograph of the inside of a prison from outside the prison, or’.

(3) After subsection (1) insert—

‘(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)—

(a) a photograph taken outside a prison of an image which is being transmitted from inside the prison by electronic communications for simultaneous reception outside the prison is to be treated as a photograph taken inside the prison, and

(b) a sound-recording made outside a prison of sounds which are being transmitted from inside the prison by electronic communications for simultaneous reception outside the prison is to be treated as a sound-recording made inside the prison.’

(4) Omit subsection (2).

(5) After subsection (4) insert—