Revocation of licences.
Government
not respon- sible for loss or
damage.
(b) the precautions to be taken for preventing the improper interception or disclosure of messages;
(c) the period for which and the conditions subject to which messages and other documents belonging to or being in the custody of telegraph officers shall be preserved;
(d) the fees to be charged for searching for messages or other documents in the custody of any telegraph officer.
(3) When making rules for the conduct of any telegraph established, maintained or worked by any person licensed under this Ordinance, the Governor in Council may prescribe fines for any breach of the same.
(4) The fines so prescribed shall not exceed the following limits:-
(a) when the person licensed under this Ordinance is punishable for the breach, five hundred dollars, and in the case of a continuing breach, a further fine of one hundred dollars for every day after the first during the whole or any part of which the breach continues;
(b) when a servant of the person so licensed or any other person is punishable for the breach, one-fourth of the amount specified in clause (a).
8. The Governor in Council may at any time revoke any licence granted under section 3 for good cause or on the breach of any of the conditions therein contained or in default of payment of any consideration payable thereunder.
9.-(1) The Government shall not be responsible for any loss or damage which may occur in consequence of any telegraph officer failing in his duty with respect to the receipt, transmission or delivery of any message.
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(2) No such officer shall be responsible for any such loss or damage unless he causes the same negligently, maliciously or fraudulently.
Part III.
Power in Director of Public Works to place and maintain telegraph
lines and posts.
POWER TO PLACE TELEGRAPH LINES AND POSTS.
10-(1) The Director of Public Works may place and maintain, and may authorise a person licensed under section 3 to place and maintain, a telegraph line under, over, along or across, and posts in or upon, any immovable property.
(2) Neither the Government nor a licensed person shall by the exercise of the powers conferred by this section acquire any right other than that of user only in any property over, along, across, in or upon which any telegraph line or post has been so placed.
(3) In the exercise of the powers conferred by this section the Director of Public Works and any licensed person so authorised as aforesaid shall do as little damage as possible, and when those powers have been exercised in respect of any property, full compensation shall be paid by the Director of Public Works or by the licensed person, whichever has exercised the powers, to all persons interested for any damage sustained by reason of the exercise of such powers.
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