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(7) "Licensed person" means a person holding a licence granted by the Governor in Council under section 3 or section 30.

Part II.

PRIVILEGES AND POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT,

3.-(1) Within the Colony the Governor in Council shali Exclusive have the exclusive privilege of establishing, maintaining and privilege in working telegraphs.

respect of telegraphs and power to grant

(2) The Governor in Council may grant a licence, on such licences. conditions and in consideration of such payments as he thinks fit, to any person or to the representative for the time being in the Colony of any corporation or administration to establish, maintain or work a telegraph within any part of the Colony, and to place, lay, carry or maintain any posts, cables or wires for the purpose of such telegraph in, along, through, across or under any roads or other property vested in the Crown.

Government

4.-(1) On the occurrence of any public emergency or Power in in the interest of the public safety the Governor or any officer to take specially authorized in this behalf by the Governor may---

possession of licensed

(a) take temporary possession of any telegraph establish- telegraphs ed, maintained or worked by any person licensed under this Ordinance; or

(b) withdraw either partially or totally the use of any telephone trunk line or exchange system from any person or class of persons or from the public at large; or

(c) order that any message or class of messages to or from any person or class of persons or relating to any particular subject, brought for transmission by or trans- mitted or received by any telegraph, shall not be transmitted or shall be intercepted or detained or shall be disclosed to the Government or an officer thereof mentioned in the order.

(2) If any doubt arises as to the existence of a public emergency or whether any act done under sub-section (1) was in the interest of the public safety, a certificate, signed by the Governor within fourteen days from the taking of such temporary possession, and delivered to the person in charge of the telegraph, shall be conclusive proof on the point.

and to order interception of messages.

5.-(1) Where it appears to the Governor that such a Power to course is expedient in the public interest he may by warrant require

production under his hand require any person who owns or controls any of messages. telegraph line or any apparatus for radiocommunication, used for the sending or receipt of messages to or from any place outside the Colony, to produce to any person named in the warrant the originals and transcripts either of all messages or of messages of any specified class or description sent or received to or from any place outside the Colony by means of any such line or apparatus, and all other papers relating to any such messages.

(2) In this section the expression "radiocommunication" shall have the same meaning as in section 27.