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18 of 1936.
1 of 1937.
23 of 1939
12 of 1947.
33 of 1949.
9 of 1950.
24 of 1950.
Telecommunication.
CHAPTER 106.
TELECOMMUNICATION.
To amend and consolidate the law relating to telecommunication.
[1st October, 1936.]
Short title.
Interpretation.
PART I.
Preliminary.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telecommunication Ordinance.
In this Ordinance-
"telecommunication" means any telegraphic or telephonic communication of signs, signals, writing, facsimiles and sounds of any kind, by wire, wireless, or any other system or process of electric or visual signalling or by means of pneumatic tubes;
"telegraph" means any electric, galvanic or magnetic telegraph, and includes appliances and apparatus for transmitting, receiving or making telecommunication, but does not include electric appliances and apparatus, other than radio, the operation and scope of which is limited to communications concerning the affairs of the sender or receiver thereof and confined to a single messuage or tenement or works area;
"telegraph officer" means any person employed, either permanently or temporarily, in connexion with telegraph established, maintained or worked by the Government or by a person licensed under this Ordinance;
"telegraph line" means any wire or wires used for the purposes of telecommunication, with any casing, coating, tube or pipe enclosing the same, and any appliances and apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of fixing or insulating the same;
"message" means any telecommunication sent by telegraph or handed to a telegraph officer to be sent by telegraph or to be delivered;
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