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22. Any telegraph officer, or any person not being a Misconduct. 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 imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months and to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
fabricated
message.
23. Any person who transmits or causes to be trans- Sending mitted by telegraph a message which he knows to be false or fabricated shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
retention,
24. Any person who fraudulently retains or wilfully Fraudulent secretes, makes away with or detains a message which ought etc., of to have been delivered to some other person, or being required message. by a telegraph officer to deliver up any such message neglects or refuses to do so, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
25. A telegraph officer shall be deemed a public servant Bribery, within the meaning of sections 3 and 4 of the Misdemeanors Punishment Ordinance, 1898.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1898.
26. Any person who attempts to commit any offence Attempts punishable under this Ordinance shall be punished with the to commit punishment herein provided for the offence.
offences.
Part V.
under
RADIOCOMMUNICATION.
27. In this Part and in any regulations made there- Interpreta-
means any telecom-
(1) (a) "Radiocommunication" munication by means of Hertzian waves.
(b) "Radiocommunication station" includes every ap- paratus or collection of apparatus which can be used for radiocommunication or radiodistribution, whether for trans- mitting or receiving or for transmitting and receiving, and whether such apparatus or collection of apparatus be complete
or not.
(2) Subject to the regulations made under section 32 nothing in this Part shall prevent any person from making or using electrical apparatus for actuating machinery or for any purpose other than the transmission or reception of messages.
tion.
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