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18 :“article” includes anything for storing data;
 * “Convention offence” means an offence listed in Schedule 1 or an equivalent offence under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom;
 * “glorification” includes any form of praise or celebration, and cognate expressions are to be construed accordingly;
 * “public” is to be construed in accordance with subsection (3);
 * “publish” and cognate expressions are to be construed in accordance with subsection (4);
 * “record” means a record so far as not comprised in an article, including a temporary record created electronically and existing solely in the course of, and for the purposes of, the transmission of the whole or a part of its contents;
 * “statement” is to be construed in accordance with subsection (6).

(3) In this Part references to the public—
 * (a) are references to the public of any part of the United Kingdom or of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, or any section of the public; and
 * (b) except in section 9(4), also include references to a meeting or other group of persons which is open to the public (whether unconditionally or on the making of a payment or the satisfaction of other conditions).

(4) In this Part references to a person’s publishing a statement are references to—
 * (a) his publishing it in any manner to the public;
 * (b) his providing electronically any service by means of which the public have access to the statement; or
 * (c) his using a service provided to him electronically by another so as to enable or to facilitate access by the public to the statement;

but this subsection does not apply to the references to a publication in section 2.

(5) In this Part references to providing a service include references to making a facility available; and references to a service provided to a person are to be construed accordingly.

(6) In this Part references to a statement are references to a communication of any description, including a communication without words consisting of sounds or images or both.

(7) In this Part references to conduct that should be emulated in existing circumstances include references to conduct that is illustrative of a type of conduct that should be so emulated.

(8) In this Part references to what is contained in an article or record include references—
 * (a) to anything that is embodied or stored in or on it; and
 * (b) to anything that may be reproduced from it using apparatus designed or adapted for the purpose.

(9) The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument—
 * (a) modify Schedule 1 so as to add an offence to the offences listed in that Schedule;
 * (b) modify that Schedule so as to remove an offence from the offences so listed;