Section 21A(7)

For the purposes of this regulation, the following definitions also apply— “apparatus” includes any equipment, machinery or device (whether physical or logical) and any wire or cable; “communication”, for the purpose of a telecommunication system, includes— anything comprising speech, music, sounds, visual images or data of any description; and signals serving for the impartation of anything between persons, between a person and a thing or between things, for the actuation or control of any apparatus; “content”, in relation to a communication and a telecommunication system, means any element of the communication, or any data attached to or logically associated with the communication, which reveals anything of what might reasonably be considered to be the meaning (if any) of the communication, but— any meaning arising from the fact of the communication or from any data relating to the transmission of the communication is to be disregarded; and anything which is systems data is not content; “systems data” means any data that enables or facilitates, or identifies or describes anything connected with enabling or facilitating, the functioning of a telecommunication system (including any apparatus forming part of the system); “a telecommunication system” means a system (including the apparatus comprised in it) that exists for the purpose of facilitating the transmission of communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electromagnetic energy; “wireless telegraphy” and “wireless telegraphy apparatus” have the same meaning as in sections 116 and 117 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-08-30