1964_TELECOMMUNICATION_ORDINANCE — Page 24

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offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

(Added 2 of 1968 s. 4. Amended 17 of 1972 s. 4)

24. Offences by telecommunication officer, etc.

A telecommunication officer, or any person who, though not a telecommunication officer, has official duties in connection with a telecommunication service, who-

(a) wilfully destroys, secretes or alters any message that he has received for transmission or delivery;

(b) forges any message or utters any message that he knows to be forged or altered;

(c) wilfully abstains from transmitting any message or wilfully intercepts or detains or delays any message;

(d) otherwise than in pursuance of his duty or as directed by a court, copies any message or discloses any message or the purport of any message to any person other than the person to whom the message is addressed.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.

25. Secretion, etc., of messages by persons other than telecommunication officers

Any person, not being a telecommunication officer, or a person who, though not a telecommunication officer, has official duties in connection with a telecommunication service, who-

(a) wilfully secretes, detains or delays a message intended for delivery to some other person; or (Amended 48 of 1972 s. 4)

(b) having been required by a telecommunication officer to deliver up to him a message in the possession of that person and intended for delivery to some other person, refuses or neglects to do so,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 12 months.

26. Transmission by telecommunication officer of message not paid for

A telecommunication officer who, with intent to defraud, transmits by telecommunication a message in respect of which the charge prescribed by or under this Ordinance has not been paid shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.