Tracing of
malicious or
nuisance calls
151. (1) An information and communications
provider may override anything done to prevent the
presentation of the identity of a calling line where
(a) a subscriber has requested the tracing of
malicious or nuisance calls received on his
or her line; and
(b) the provider is satisfied that the action is
necessary and expedient for the purposes
of tracing the calls.
(2) Any term of a contract for the provision of public
information and communications services which
relates to the prevention of the presentation
referred to in subsection (1) shall have effect
subject to the provisions of that subsection.
(3) Nothing in this Act prevents a communications
provider, for the purposes of any action relating to
the tracing of malicious or nuisance calls, from
storing and making available to a person with a
legitimate interest, data containing the identity of a
calling subscriber which were obtained while
subsection (1) applied.
Emergency calls
152. (1) For the purposes of this section, “emer
gency calls” means calls to the national emergency
call numbers.
(2) In order to facilitate responses to emergency
calls
(a) no person is entitled to prevent the pre
sentation on the connected line of the
identity of the calling line; and
(b) any restriction on the processing of location
data shall be disregarded.
Termination of
automatic call
forwarding
153. (1) Where
(a) calls originally directed to another line are
being automatically forwarded to a sub
scriber’s line as a result of action taken by a
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