[80A Prevention or restriction of use of communication devices for drug dealing]
Serious Crime Act 2015 (2015 c 9) | Legislation

[80A  Prevention or restriction of use of communication devices for drug dealing]

[(1)     Regulations may make provision conferring power on a court to make a drug dealing telecommunications restriction order.

(2)     “Drug dealing telecommunications restriction order” means an order requiring a communications provider to take whatever action the order specifies for the purpose of preventing or restricting the use of communication devices in connection with drug dealing offences.

(3)     Without limiting the action that may be specified, it includes—

(a)     action that relates to a specified device;

(b)     action that relates to a specified phone number or something else that may be used with a device.

(4)     In this section “drug dealing offence” means an offence under section 4(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 or section 5 of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016; and a communication device is used in connection with a drug dealing offence if it is used by a person (“the user”) in the course of—

(a)     the user committing a drug dealing offence,

(b)     the user facilitating the commission by the user or another person of a drug dealing offence, or

(c)

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