"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> "Road_Hog®" <No Spam> declared for all the world to hear...
>> What legislation licences you to change the IMEI in the UK?
>
> Section 1, paragraph 3b of the Act you quote in another post seems to
> fit the bill.
>
> Also explained in the explanatory note paragraph 5.
>
>> Besides, we're talking about reparing/rewriting the IMEI to a phone.
>
> You are still changing it.
> --


Right, just so I'm absolutely clear on what you are saying. A customer
brings a damaged phone into a shop with the original details and asks for it
to be repaired, which involves the re-writing of the original IMEI, you are
saying that you (the person/shop owner) would be arrested and imprisoned if
the relevant authorities found out?