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(2) A person who communicates any information which he knows or believes to be false to another person with the intention of inducing in him or any other person a false belief that a bomb or other thing liable to explode or ignite is present in any place or location whatever is guilty of an offence.

(3) For a person to be guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) above it is not necessary for him to have any particular person in mind as the person in whom he intends to induce the belief mentioned in that subsection.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding £1,000, or both;
 * (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.

52. In section 37(1) (interpretation) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, for the definition of “cannabis” there shall be substituted—
 * “‘cannabis’ (except in the expression cannabis resin) means any plant of the genus Cannabis or any part of any such plant (by whatever name designated) except that it does not include cannabis resin or any of the following products after separation from the rest of the plant, namely—
 * (a) mature stalk of any such plant,
 * (b) fibre produced from mature stalk of any such plant, and
 * (c) seed of any such plant;”.

53.—(1) In the proviso to section 1(3) of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 (which excludes from the scope of that Act anything done in the course of a cinematograph exhibition taking place otherwise than in a private house to which the public are not admitted and anything done in the course of television or sound broadcasting) the words from “a cinematograph exhibition” to “in the course of” shall be omitted.

(2) In section 2 of that Act (prohibition of publication of obscene matter) at the end of subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
 * “(3A) Proceedings for an offence under this section shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in any case where the article in question is a moving picture film of a width of not less than sixteen millimetres and the relevant publication