16 CAP. 399.] Nullity of the contract and of certain terms and conditions. Amended by: XVIII. 2000.31. Substituted by: VII. 2004.19; IX. 2011.26. 24. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (REGULATION) (Deleted by Act LII.2021.26). PART III LEGAL PROTECTION OF SERVICES BASED ON OR CONSISTING OF CONDITIONAL ACCESS Legal protection of services based on or consisting of conditional access. Added by: IX. 2003.89. Amended by: VII. 2004.21; L.N. 425 of 2007. Re-numbered: IX. 2011.22. Amended by: LII. 2021.27. 25. (1) In this article: "broadcaster" means the natural or legal person who has editorial responsibility for the composition of television programme services for reception by the general public and transmits them, or has them transmitted, complete and unchanged, by a third party; "conditional access" means any technical measure or arrangement permitting access in an intelligible form, and subject to prior individual authorisation, to one of the services constituting a protected service; "conditional access device" means any equipment, software, or arrangement designed or adapted to give access in an intelligible form to one of the services constituting a protected service; "illicit device" means any equipment, software, or arrangement designed or adapted to give access in an intelligible form to one of the services constituting a protected service without the authorisation of the service provider; "programme service" means all the items within a single service provided by a given broadcaster; "protected service" means any of the following services when provided against remuneration and on the basis of conditional access: (a) television programme services; (b) radio broadcasting services including radio programmes intended for reception by the public, transmitted by wire or over the air, including by satellite; (c) information society services offered by electronic means at a distance and at the individual request of the recipient of the services; or (d) the provision of conditional access to the above services considered as a service in its own right. Infringing acts constituting a criminal offence. (2) Any person who (a) manufactures or produces illicit devices for commercial purposes; or (b) imports illicit devices into Malta for commercial purposes; or