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1 Public nuisance and order Copyright Unfair contract terms

2 Copyright Act Without limiting the meaning of the expression “reasonable portion” in this Act, where a literary, dramatic or musical work is contained in a published edition of that work, being an edition which is stored on any medium by electronic means and is not divided into pages, a copy of part of that work, as it appears in that edition, shall be taken to contain only a reasonable portion of that work if the part that is copied in the edition — does not exceed, in the aggregate — (i) 10% of the total number of bytes in that edition; or (ii)10% of the total number of words in that edition or, where it is not practicable to use the total number of words as a measure, 10% of the contents of that edition (Chapter 63, 7, 2A, (a)) Take a picture, hashtag #iknowmylaws, and post on Instagram!

3 Intentional Harm, Alarm or Distress Any person who in a public place or in a private place, with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress to another person — (a)uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour ; or (b)displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, thereby causing that person or any other person harassment, alarm or distress, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000. (Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act (Chapter 184), Part II, 13A, 1) Take a picture, hashtag #iknowmylaws, and post on Instagram!

4 Making of harassing or obscene telephone calls to emergency telephone numbers (1)Any person who makes a telephone call to an emergency telephone number with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person who answers the telephone call shall be guilty of an offence and, […] shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both. (2)Any person who makes a telephone call to an emergency telephone number and, upon the call being answered, makes or solicits any comment, request, suggestion, proposal or other comment, request, suggestion, proposal or other communication or sound which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent, shall be guilty of an offence and […] shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both. Take a picture, hashtag #iknowmylaws, and post on Instagram! (Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act (Chapter 184), Part II, 14A)

5 Negligence Liability (Contracts) (1)A person cannot by reference to any contract term or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence. (2)In the case of other loss or damage, a person cannot so exclude or restrict his liability for negligence except in so far as the term or notice satisfies the requirement of reasonableness. (3)Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence, a person’s agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk. (Unfair Contract Terms Act (Chapter 396), 2) Take a picture, hashtag #iknowmylaws, and post on Instagram!


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