Prison Act 1952
Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.
Change 1
40D Other offences relating to prison security
(1) A person who, without authorisation— (a) takes a photograph, or makes a sound-recording, inside a prison, or (b) transmits, or causes to be transmitted, any image , sound or information from inside a prison by electronic communications for simultaneous reception outside the prison, is guilty of an offence. (2) It is immaterial for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) where the recording medium is located. (3) A person who, without authorisation— (a) brings or otherwise conveys a restricted document out of a prison or causes such a document to be brought or conveyed out of a prison, or (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is guilty of an offence. (3A) A person who, without authorisation, is in possession of any of the items specified in subsection (3B) inside a prison is guilty of an offence. (3B) The items referred to in subsection (3A) are— (a) a device capable of transmitting or receiving images, sounds or information by electronic communications (including a mobile telephone); (b) a component part of such a device; (c) an article designed or adapted for use with such a device (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds or information may be recorded). (4) In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for the accused to show that— (a) he reasonably believed that he had authorisation to do the act in respect of which the proceedings are brought, or (b) in all the circumstances there was an overriding public interest which justified the doing of that act. (5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable— (a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine (or both); or (b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both).
40D Other offences relating to prison security
(1) A person who, without authorisation— (a) takes a photograph, or makes a sound-recording, inside a prison, or (b) transmits, or causes to be transmitted, any image , sound or information from inside a prison by electronic communications for simultaneous reception outside the prison, is guilty of an offence. (2) It is immaterial for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) where the recording medium is located. (3) A person who, without authorisation— (a) brings or otherwise conveys a restricted document out of a prison or causes such a document to be brought or conveyed out of a prison, or (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is guilty of an offence. (3A) A person who, without authorisation, is in possession of any of the items specified in subsection (3B) inside a prison is guilty of an offence. (3B) The items referred to in subsection (3A) are— (a) a device capable of transmitting or receiving images, sounds or information by electronic communications (including a mobile telephone); (b) a component part of such a device; (c) an article designed or adapted for use with such a device (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds or information may be recorded). (4) In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for the accused to show that— (a) he reasonably believed that he had authorisation to do the act in respect of which the proceedings are brought, or (b) in all the circumstances there was an overriding public interest which justified the doing of that act. (5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable— (a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine (or both); or (b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both).
One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".
Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.
A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.
Sign in to file your proposal. What you have written stays on this page.
Sign in to file itThink it through
Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.