The document contains summaries of several acts and laws: 1) Two acts relate to discrimination - one on racial grounds and another amending the Sex Discrimination Act. 2) An act regulates the sale and supply of alcohol and entertainment. 3) Privacy laws deal with the collection, storage, and use of personal information by governments and organizations and individuals' reasonable expectations of privacy. 4) Intellectual property laws grant owners of creative works and inventions exclusive rights over copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets. 5) Libel and slander laws originated from English defamation law and are now implemented in many Commonwealth nations and countries like the US and Ireland.

1. Unit 2 Task 1 Be able to extract
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2. • An Act to give further effect to rights and freedoms
guaranteed under the European Convention on Human
Rights; to make provision with respect to holders of
certain judicial offices who become judges of the
European Court of Human Rights; and for connected
purposes.

3. • An Act to make fresh provision with respect to
discrimination on racial grounds and relations between
people of different racial groups; and to make in the Sex
Discrimination Act 1975 amendments for bringing
provisions in that Act relating to its administration and
enforcement into conformity with the corresponding
provisions in this Act.

4. • An Act to make provision about the regulation of the sale
and supply of alcohol, the provision of entertainment and
the provision of late night refreshment, about offences
relating to alcohol and for connected purposes.

5. • Privacy law refers to the laws which deal with the
regulation of personal information about individuals which
can be collected by governments and other public as well
as private organizations and its storage and use.
• Privacy laws are considered in the context of an
individual's privacy rights or reasonable expectation of
privacy.

6. • Intellectual property (IP) is a legal term that refers to
creations of the mind. Examples of intellectual property
include music, literature, and other artistic works;
discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases,
symbols, and designs. Under intellectual property laws,
owners of intellectual property are granted certain
exclusive rights. Some common types of intellectual
property rights (IPR) are copyright, patents, and industrial
design rights; and the rights that
protect trademarks, trade dress, and in some
jurisdictions trade secrets. Intellectual property rights are
themselves a form of property, called intangible property.

7. • Modern libel and slander laws, as implemented in many
(but not all) Commonwealth nations as well as in the
United States and in the Republic of Ireland, are
originally descended from English defamation law. The
history of defamation law in England is somewhat
obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been
relatively frequent as far back as the reign of Edward I
(1272–1307), though it is unknown whether any generally
applicable criminal process was in place.

8. • An Act to amend the law relating to the publication of
obscene matter; to provide for the protection of literature;
and to strengthen the law concerning pornography. They
define the legal bounds of obscenity in England and
Wales, and are used to enforce the removal of obscene
material.

9. • An Act to make new provision with respect to the provision and
regulation of independent television and sound programme services
and of other services provided on television or radio frequencies; to
make provision with respect to the provision and regulation of local
delivery services; to amend in other respects the law relating to
broadcasting and the provision of television and sound programme
services and to make provision with respect to the supply and use of
information about programmes; to make provision with respect to the
transfer of the property, rights and liabilities of the Independent
Broadcasting Authority and the Cable Authority and the dissolution of
those bodies; to make new provision relating to the Broadcasting
Complaints Commission; to provide for the establishment and
functions of a Broadcasting Standards Council; to amend the
Wireless Telegraphy Acts 1949 to 1967 and the Marine, &c.,
Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967; to revoke a class licence granted
under the Telecommunications Act 1984 to run broadcast relay
systems; and for connected purposes.