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Misconduct.

Sending fabricated message.

Fraudulent retention, etc., of message.

Bribery.

Ordinance

No. 1 of 1898.

Attempts

to commit offences.

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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 imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months and to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

23. Any person who transmits or causes to be trans- 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.

24. Any person who fraudulently retains or wilfully secretes, makes away with or detains a message which ought to have been delivered to some other person, or being required 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 within the meaning of sections 3 and 4 of the Misdemeanors Punishment Ordinance, 1898.

26. Any person who attempts to commit any offence punishable under this Ordinance shall be punished with the punishment herein provided for the offence.

Interpreta- tion.

Part V.

RADIOCOMMUNICATION.

27. In this Part and in any regulations made there-

under :---

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.