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Telegraph
officer or other official making away with or altering or unlawfully intercepting or disclosing messages or divulging purport of signals.
Telegraph officer fraudulently sending messages without payment.
Misconduct.
Telecommunication.
20. Any telegraph officer, or any person not being a telegraph officer but having official duties connected with any office which is used as a telegraph office, who—
(a) wilfully secretes, makes away with or alters any message which he has received for transmission or delivery;
(b) forges or, knowing the same to be forged or wilfully altered, utters any message whether he has or has not any intent to defraud;
(c) wilfully and otherwise than in obedience to an order of the Governor in Council, or of an officer specially authorized by the Governor in Council to make the order, omits to transmit or intercepts or detains any message or any part thereof or otherwise than in pursuance of his official duty or in obedience to the direction of a competent court, discloses the contents or any part of the contents of any message to any person not entitled to receive the same; or
(d) divulges the purport of any telegraphic signal to any person not entitled to become acquainted with the same,
shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for three years.
21. Any telegraph officer who transmits by telegraph any message on which the charge prescribed by the Government or by a person licensed under this Ordinance, as the case may be, has not been paid, intending thereby to defraud the Government or that person, shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for three years.
22. Any telegraph officer, or any person not being a telegraph officer but having official duties connected with any office which is used as a telegraph office, who is guilty of any act of drunkenness, carelessness or other misconduct whereby the correct transmission or the delivery of any message is impeded or delayed, or any telegraph officer who loiters or delays in the transmission or delivery of any message, shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisonment for three months.
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