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Telecommunication.
(2) The powers conferred by paragraph (c) of subsection (1) may also be exercised by the Governor, or any officer specially authorized by him in that behalf, in any case which appears to be dangerous to the security of the Colony, or contrary to the laws of the Colony, or contrary to public order or decency.
1 of 1937, s.2.
Power to require production
of messages.
Protection of certain
publication
period.
(3) If any doubt arises as to the existence of a public emergency, or whether any act done under this section was in the interest of the security of the Colony or of the enforcement of the laws of the Colony or of public order or decency, a certificate signed by the Governor and delivered to the person in charge of the telegraph shall be conclusive proof on the point.
5. (1) Where it appears to the Governor that such a course is expedient in the public interest he may by warrant under his hand require any person who owns or controls any telegraph line or any apparatus for radiocommunication, used for the sending or receipt of messages to or from any place outside the Colony, to produce to any person named in the warrant the originals and transcripts either of all messages or of messages of any specified class or description sent or received to or from any place outside the Colony by means of any such line or apparatus, and all other papers relating to any such messages.
(2) In this section the expression "radiocommunication" shall have the same meaning as in section 27.
(3) Any person who, on being required under subsection (1) to produce any original or transcript of a message or any paper relating to a message, refuses or neglects to do so, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
6. (1) Whenever any message transmitted by telegraph from any place outside the Colony is received by any person, association or company in the Colony, for the purpose of publication in any newspaper, or, by printed circular or otherwise, to any limited number of persons being members of or subscribers to any such association or company, no person, whether a member of or a subscriber to such association or company or not, shall, without the consent in writing of such person, association or company by whom such message has been received, print or publish in any
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