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Unlawfully

attempting to learn contents of messages.

Intentionally

damaging or tampering with tele- graphs.

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18. Any person who does any of the acts mentioned in section 17 with the intention of unlawfully learning the contents of any message or of committing any offence punish- able under this Ordinance, may, in addition to the fine to which he is liable under section 17, be liable to imprisonment for any terin not exceeding one year.

19. Any person who, intending-

(a) to prevent or obstruct the transmission or delivery of any message;

(b) to intercept or to acquaint himself with the contents of any message; or

(c) to cause, or knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person,

damages, removes, tampers with or touches any battery, machinery, telegraph line, post or other thing whatever, being part of or used in or about any telegraph or in the working thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years and to a fine not exceeding five hundred. dollars.

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.

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;

(e) 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 imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

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 imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.