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(3) Any person who, on being required under sub- section (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 imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

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6. (1) Whenever any message transmitted by telegraph Protection from any place outside the Colony is received by any person, messages association or company in the Colony, for the purpose of from publica. publication in any newspaper, or, by printed circular or other- tion within wise, to any limited number of persons being members of or period. 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 newspaper, or in any letter or circular or other printed or written communication, or tender for transmission by telegraph, any such message, or the substance thereof or any extract therefrom, until after the expiration of thirty six hours from the time of the first publication of such message by the person, association or company receiving the same: Provided always that such protected period shall not extend beyond forty eight hours from the time of the first receipt in the Colony of such message: Provided also that the publication of any similar message lawfully received in like manner by any other person, association or company shall not be deemed or taken to be a publication of such first-mentioned message within the meaning of this section.

(2) Every message in respect of which the protection of this section is claimed shall be published with the heading "Telecommunication Ordinance, 1936" and the name of the person, association or company claiming such protection, and shall state the date and hour of its receipt in the Colony and of its publication, and such statement shall be prima facie evidence of the times of such receipt and publication.

(3) In any prosecution under this section the production of any document which purports to be a telegraphic message duly and regularly issued by any telegraph company in the Colony on its customary form shall be prima facie evidence that the message contained therein was received in the Colony by telegraph from the place therein mentioned to the address of the person, association or company therein named, and was duly delivered in the Colony to such person, association or company.

(4) Every person who prints or publishes, or causes to be printed or published, or retransmits any matter contrary to the provisions of this section shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

7.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council Power to to make regulations for the conduct of all or any telegraphs make

regulations established, maintained or worked by the Government or by for the persons licensed under this Ordinance.

(2) Regulations made under this section may provide for all or any of the following among other matters -

(a) the rates at which and the other conditions and restrictions subject to which messages shall be transmitted;

conduct of telegraphs.