What Online Safety Act 2023, Section 179: False communications offence requires
This section establishes a criminal offense for a person who sends a message containing information they know to be false, with…
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Pillar: Online Safety & Child Protection · Authority: UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/179
SHA-256 integrity: f31fc02887abdd0a0e195715dbf4179ecf30932419dc93bea7cdad09e05755a2
Primary Citations — 6 traced to source
- Section 179, paragraph 1: A person commits an offence if they send a message conveying information they know to be false, with the intent to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and have no reasonable excuse.
- Section 179, paragraph 2: An individual is a 'likely audience' of a message if, at the time the message is sent, it is reasonably foreseeable that the individual would encounter the message, or in the online context, would encounter a subsequent message forwarding or sharing the content of the message.
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