The Telegraph
Act, 1885
No. XIII of 1885
An Act to
amend the law relating to Telegraphs in Pakistan
Preamble.
Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to telegraphs in Pakistan
PART I
Preliminary
1.
Short title, local extent and commencement. (1) This Act
may be called the Telegraph Act, 1885.
(2)
It extends to the whole of Pakistan ,
and it applies also to all citizens of Pakistan
(3)
It shall come into force on the first day of October, 1885.
2.
Repeal and Saving. Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (I
of 1938), S. 2 and Sch.
3.
Definitions. In this Act, unless there is
something repugnant in the subject or context,---
(1)
‘telegraph’ means any apparatus, equipment or plant used for transmitting,
emitting, making or receiving signs, signals, writing, speech, sound or
intelligence of any nature by wire, radio or visual or electromagnetic system.
(2)
‘telegraph officer’ means any person employed either permanently or temporarily
in connection with a telegraph established, maintained or worked by the Federal
Government or by a person licensed under this Act;
(3)
‘message’ means any communication, whether in written, printed, pictorial or
spoken form, transmitted, emitted, made, received or delivered by telegraph or
given to a telegraph officer to be transmitted, or emitted and includes alt
contents thereof;
(4)
‘telegraph line’ means a wire or cable used for the purpose of telegraph,
including any casing, coating, tube, tunnel, duct or pipe enclosing the same,
and includes any apparatus connected therewith,
(5)
‘post’ means a post, pole standard, stay, strut or other contrivance for
carrying, suspending or supporting a telegraph line and includes masts and
towers required for telegraph.
(6)
‘telegraph authority’ means the Director-General, Pakistan Telegraph and
Telephone Department, and includes any officer empowered by him to perform all
or any of the functions of the telegraph authority under this Act;
(7)
‘local authority’ means any municipal committee, district board, Body of Port
Commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the
Federal or any Provincial Government with, the control or management of any
municipal or local fund;
(8)
‘works’ means a manhole, cabinet, housing for cable repeater or radio repeater
or any other structure above or under the ground, required for a post or
telephone line.
PART II
PRIVILEGES AND POWERS OF THE
GOVERNMENT
4.
Exclusive Privilege in respect of Telegraphs, and Power to Grant Licenses (1) Federal
Government shall have the exclusive privilege of establishing, maintaining, and
working telegraph:---
Provided
that Federal Government may grant a licence, on such conditions and in
consideration of such payments as it thinks fit, to any person to establish,
maintain or work a telegraph within any part of Pakistan
Provided
further that the Federal Government may by rules made under this Act and
published in the official Gazette permit subject to such restrictions and
conditions as it thinks fit, the establishment, maintenance and working-
(a)
of wireless telegraphs on ships within Pakistan
territorial waters and on aircraft within or above Pakistan ,
Pakistan
(b)
of telegraphs other than wireless telegraphs within any part of Pakistan
(2)
The Federal Government may, by Notification in the official Gazette, delegate
to the telegraph authority all or any of its powers under the first proviso to
sub-section (1).
The
exercise by the telegraph authority of any power so delegated shall be subject
to such restrictions and conditions as the Federal Government may by the
notification think fit to impose.
5.
Power for Government to take possession of licensed telegraphs and to order
interception of Messages. (1) On the occurrence of any public
emergency, or, in .the interest of the public safety, the Federal Government or
a Provincial Government or any officer specially authorised in this behalf by
the Federal Government or a Provincial Government, may-
(a)
take temporary possession of any telegraph established, maintained or worked by
any person licensed under this Act, or
(b)
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
transmitted or received by, any telegraph, shall not be transmitted, or shall
be intercepted or detained, or shall be disclosed to the Government making the
order or any 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 subsection (1) was in the interest of the public safety, a
certificate of the Federal Government or, as the case may be, the Provincial
Government shall be conclusive proof on the point.
6.
Power to establish telegraph on land of Railway Company .
The Railway Administration on being required so to do by the Federal Government
shall permit the Government to establish and maintain a telegraph upon any part
of the land under the management or control of the Administration, and shall
give every reasonable facility for working the same.
7.
Power to make rules for the conduct of Telegraphs.
(1) The Federal Government may, from time to time, by notification in the official
Gazette make rules consistent with this Act for the conduct of all or any
telegraphs established, maintained or worked by the Government or by persons
licences under this Act.
(2)
Rules under this section may provide for all or any of the following, among
other matters, that is to say,---
(a)
the rates at which, and the other conditions and restrictions subject to which,
messages shall be transmitted;
(b)
the precautions to be taken for preventing the improper interception or
disclosure of messages;
(c)
the period for which, and the conditions ‘subject to which, telegrams and other
documents belonging to, by being in the custody of telegraph officers shall be
preserved; and
(d)
the fees to be charged for searching for telegrams or other documents in the
custody of any telegraph officer.
(3)
When making rules for the conduct of any telegraph established, maintained or
worked by any person licensed under this Act, the Federal Government may, by
the rules, prescribe fines for any breach of the same:---
Provided
that the fines so prescribed shall not exceed the following limits, namely:---
(i)
when the person licensed under this Act is punishable for the breach, one
thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing breach a further fine of two
hundred rupees for every day after the first during the whole or any part of
which the breach continues;
(ii)
when a servant of the person so licensed, or any other person, is punishable
for the in-each, one-fourth of the amounts specified in clause (i).
7-A.
Recovery of dues in respect of telegraph, etc.
If any person does not pay any sum due from him under this Act in respect of
any telegraph or message, the sum so due may, on application made by the
telegraph authority in this behalf, be recovered from such person, as if it
were a fine imposed under this Act by any Magistrate having jurisdiction where
that person may for the time being the resident; and the Telegraph Authority
may further direct that any message, not being on Pakistan State Service,
addressed to that person, shall be withheld from him until the sum so due is
paid or recovered as aforesaid.
8.
Revocation of licences. The Federal Government may at any
time revoke any license granted under Section 4 on the breach of any of the
conditions therein contained, or in default Of payment of any consideration
payable there-under.
9.
Government not responsible for loss of damage.
The Government shall not be responsible for any loss or damage which may occur
in consequence of any telegraph officer failing in his duty with respect to the
receipt, transmission or delivery of any message; and no such officer shall be
responsible for any such loss or damage unless he causes the same negligently
maliciously or fraudulently.
PART III
POWER TO PLACE TELEGRAPH LINES AND POSTS
POWER TO PLACE TELEGRAPH LINES AND POSTS
10.
Power for telegraph authority to place and maintain telegraph lines and posts:---
The
Telegraph Authority may place, set up, repair, alter and maintain or cause to
be placed, set up, repaired, altered and maintained a telegraph line, post or
works under, over, along, across or through any land, seashore, road, stream,
water or any immovable property, may break, excavate and remove soil to the
extent and depth required for placing or removing telegraph line, post or
works, and for the purpose of constructing or maintaining a telegraph line or
post, may dig earth, stone and gravel and fell trees:
Provided
that,---
(a)
the Telegraph Authority shall not exercise the powers conferred by this section
except for the purposes of a telegraph established or maintained by the Federal
Government or to be so established or maintained;
(b)
the Federal Government shall not acquire by right other than that of user only
in the property under, over, along, across, in or upon which the Telegraph
Authority places any telegraph line or post; and
(c)
except as hereinafter provided, the Telegraph Authority shall not exercise
those powers in respect of any property vested in or under the control or
management of any Local Authority, without the permission of that authority,
and
(d)
in the exercise of the powers conferred by this section, the telegraph
authority shall do as little damages possible, and, when it has exercised those
powers in respect of any property other than that referred to in clause (c),
shall pay full compensation to all persons interested for any damage sustained
by them by reason of the exercise of those powers.
11.
Power to enter on property in order to repair or remove telegraph lines or
posts. The telegraph authority may at any time for the purpose of
examining, repairing, altering or removing any telegraph line, post or works,
enter on the property under, over, along across, in or upon which the line or
post has been placed.
12.
Power for local authority to give permission under Section 10, clause (c),
subject to conditions: (1) Any permission given by a local
authority under Section 10, clause (c), may be given subject to such reasonable
conditions as that authority thinks fit to impose, as to the payment of any
expenses to which the authority will necessarily be put in consequence of the
exercise of the powers conferred by that section, or as to the time or mode of
execution of any work, or as to any other thing connected with or relative to
any work undertaken by the telegraph authority under those powers:
[Provided
that, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in
force, the local authority shall not impose any condition which requires the
telegraph authority to pay rent or royalty for setting up or placing a
telegraph line over, across, along or through the property of that authority.
(2)
Any dispute regarding the amount of the expenses payable by the telegraph
authority under subsection (1) shall be determined in accordance with Section
15:---
Provided
that permission to the telegraph authority shall not be withheld on account of
such dispute.
13.
Power for Local Authority to require removal or alternation of telegraph line
or post. When under the foregoing provisions of this Act, a
telegraph line, post or works has been placed by the telegraph authority under,
over, along, across, in or upon any property vested in or under the control or
management of a local authority, and the local authority, having regard to
circumstances which, have arisen since the telegraph line, post or works was so
placed, considers it expedient that it should be removed or that its position
should be altered, the local authority may require the telegraph authority to
remove it or alter its position, as the case may be.
14.
Power to alter position of gas or water pipes or drains.
The telegraph authority may, for the purpose of exercising the power conferred
upon it by this Act in respect of any property vested in or under the control
or management of a local authority, alter the position there-under on any pipe
(not being a main of the supply of gas or water, or of any drain (not being a
main drain):
Provided
that,---
(a)
when the Telegraph Authority desires to alter the position of any such pipe or
drain, it shall give reasonable notice of its intention to do so, specifying
the time at which it will begin to do so, to the local authority, and, when the
pipe or drain is not under the control of the local authority, to the person
under whose control the pipe or drain is;
(b)
a local authority or person receiving notice under clause (a) may send a person
a person to superintend the work, and the Telegraph Authority shall execute the
work to the reasonable satisfaction of the person so sent.
15.
Dispute between Telegraph Authority and local authority
(1) If any dispute arises between the telegraph authority and a local authority
in consequence of the local authority refusing the permission referred to in
Section 10, clause (c), or prescribing any condition under Section 12, or in
consequence of the telegraph authority omitting to comply with a requisition
made under Section 13, or otherwise in respect of the exercise of the powers
conferred by this Act, it shall be determined by such as the Federal Government
may appoint either generally or specially in this behalf.
(2)
An appeal from the determination of the officer so appointed shall lie to the
Federal Government; and the order of the Federal Government shall be final.
Provisions applicable to other Property.
Provisions applicable to other Property.
16.
Exercise of powers conferred by Section 10, and disputes as to compensation, in
case of property other than that of a local authority.
(1) If the exercise of the powers-mentioned in Section 10 in respect of
property referred to in clause (d) of that section is resisted or obstructed,
the District Magistrate may, in his discretion, order that the telegraph
authority shall be permitted to exercise them.
(2)
If, after the making of an order under subsection (i), any person resists the
exercise of those powers, or, having control over the property, does not give
all facilities for their being exercised, he shall be deemed to have committed
an offence under Section 188 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
(3)
If any dispute arises concerning the sufficiency of the compensation to be paid
under Section 10, clause (d) it shall, on application for that purpose by
either of the disputing parties to the District Judge within whose jurisdiction
the property is situate, be determined by him.
(4)
If any dispute arises as to the persons entitled to receive compensation or as
to the proportions in which the persons interested are entitled to share in it,
the Telegraph Authority may pay into the Court of the District Judge such
amount as he deems sufficient, or, where all the disputing parties have in
writing admitted the amount tendered to be sufficient or the amount has been
determined under sub-section (3) that amount; and the District Judge after
giving notice to the parties and hearing such of them as desires to be heard,
shall determine the persons entitled to receive the compensation or, as the
case may be, the proportions in which the persons interested are entitled to
share in it.
(5)
Every determination of a dispute by a District Judge under sub-section (3) or
sub-section (4) shall be final:---
Provided
that nothing in this sub-section shall affect the right of any person to
recover by suit the whole or any part of any compensation paid by the telegraph
authority from the person who has received the same.
17.
Removal or alternation of telegraph line or post on property other than that of
a local authority. (1) When under the foregoing
provisions of this Act, a telegraph line, post or works has been placed by the
Telegraph Authority under, over, along, across, in or upon any property, not
being property vested in or under the control or management of a local
authority, and any person entitled to do so desires to deal with that property
in such a manner as to render it necessary or convenient that the telegraph
line or post should be removed to another part thereof or to a higher or lower
level or altered in form, he may require the Telegraph Authority to remove or
alter the line or post accordingly:---
Provided
that, if compensation has been paid under Section 10, clause (d), he shall,
when making the requisition, tender to the Telegraph Authority the amount
requisite to defray the expense of the removal or alternation, or half of the
amount paid as compensation, whichever may be the smaller sum.
(2)
If the Telegraph Authority omits to comply with the requisition the person
making it may apply to the District Magistrate within whose jurisdiction the
property is situate to order the removal or alteration.
(3)
A District Magistrate receiving an application under sub-section (2) may in his
discretion, reject the same or make an order absolutely or subject to
conditions, for the removal of the telegraph line or post to any other part of
the property or to a higher or lower level, or for the alteration of its form;
and the order so made shall be final.
Provisions
applicable to other Property.
18.
Removal of trees interrupting telegraphic communication.
(1) If any tree standing or lying near a telegraph line interrupts, or is
likely to interrupt, telegraphic communication a Magistrate of the First or
Second Class may, on the application of the telegraph authority, cause the tree
to be removed or dealt with in such other way as he deems fit.
(2)
When disposing of an application under subsection (1) the Magistrate shall, in
the case of any tree in existence before the telegraph line was placed, award
to the persons interested in the tree such compensation as he thinks
reasonable, and the award shall be final.
19.
Telegraph lines and posts, placed before the passing of this Act.
Every telegraph line, post or works placed before the Passing of this Act
under, over, along, across, in or upon any property, for the purposes of a
telegraph established or maintained the Federal Government, shall be deemed to
have been placed in exercise of the powers conferred by, and after observance
of all the requirements of this Act.
19-A.
Person exercising legal right likely to damage telegraph or interfere with
telegraphic communication to give notice. Any
person desiring to deal in the legal exercise of a right with any property in
such a manner as is likely to cause damage to a telegraph line, post or works
which has been duly placed in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or to
interrupt or interfere with telegraphic communication, shall give not less than
one month’s notice m writing of the intended exercise of such right to the
Telegraph Authority, or to any Telegraph Officer whom the Telegraph Authority
may empower in this behalf.
(2)
If any such person without having complied with the provisions of sub-section
(1) deals with any property in such a manner as is likely to cause damage to
any telegraph line post or works or to interrupt or interfere with telegraphic
communication, a Magistrate of the First or Second Class may, on the
application of the telegraph authority, order such person to abstain from
dealing with such property in such manner for a period not exceeding one month
from the date of his order and forthwith to take such action with regard to
such property as may be in the opinion of the Magistrate necessary to remedy or
prevent such damage, interruption or interference during such period.
(3)
A person dealing with any property in the manner referred to in sub-section (1)
with the bona fide intention of averting imminent danger or personal injury to
himself or any other human being shall be deemed to have complied with the
provisions of the said sub-section if he gives such notice of the intended
exercise of the right as is in the circumstances possible, or where no such
previous notice can be given without incurring the imminent danger referred to
above, if he forthwith gives notice of the actual exercise of such right to the
authority or officer specified in the said sub-section.
19-B
Power to confer upon licensee powers of telegraph authority under this Part.
The Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, confer
upon may licensee under Section 4, in respect of the extent of his license and
subject to any conditions and restrictions which the Federal Government may
think fit to impose and to the provisions of this Part, all or any of the
powers which the telegraph authority possesses under this Part with regard to a
telegraph established or maintained by the Government or to be so established
or maintained:---
Provided
that the notice prescribed in Section 19-A shall always be given to the
telegraph authority or officer empowered to receive notice under Section 19-A.
PART IV
PENALTIES
20.
Establishing, maintaining or working unauthorised telegraph.
(1) If any person, establishes, maintains or works a telegraph within Pakistan
in contravention of the provisions of Section 4 or otherwise than as
permitted-by rules made under that section, he shall be punished, if the
telegraph is a wireless telegraph, with imprisonment which may extend to three
years or with fine, or with both, and, in any other case, with a fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees.
(2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898,
offences under this section in respect-of a wireless telegraph shall, for the
purposes of the said Code be bailable and non-cognizance.
(3)
When any person is convicted of an offence punishable under this section, the
Court before which he is convicted may direct that the telegraph in respect of
which the offence has been committed, or any part of such telegraph, be
forfeited to Government.
20-A.
Breach of conditions of license. If the holder of a license granted
under Section 4 contravenes any condition contained in his license, he shall be
punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees and with a further
fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for every week during which the
breach of the condition continues.
21.
Using unauthorized telegraphs. If any person knowing or having
reason to believe that a telegraph has been established or is maintained or
worked in contravention of this Act, transmits or receives any message by such
telegraph, or performs any service incidental thereto, or delivers any message
for transmission by such telegraph, or accepts delivery of any message sent thereby,
he shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
22.
Opposing establishment of telegraphs railway land.
If the Railway Administration neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions
of Section 6, it or he shall be punished with fine which may extend to one
thousand rupees for every day during which the neglect or refusal continues.
23.
Intrusion into signal-room, trespass in Telegraph Officer or obstruction.
If any person,---
(a)
without permission of competent authority enters a building, or a portion
thereof, housing equipment belonging to the Telegraph Authority or to a person
licensed under this Act; or
(b)
enters a fenced enclosure round such a telegraph office in contravention of any
rule or notice not to do so, or
(c)
refuses to quit such room to enclosure on being requested to do so by any
officer or servant employed therein, or
(d)
wilfully obstructs or impedes any such officer or servant in the performance of
his duty, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred
rupees.
24.
Unlawfully attempting to learn contents of messages.
If any person does any of the acts mentioned in Section 23 with the intention
of unlawfully learning the contents of any message, or of committing any
offence punishable under this Act, he may (in addition to the fine with which
he is punishable under Section 23) be punished with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to one year.
25.
Intentionally damaging or tampering with telegraph.
If any person, intending,---
(a)
to prevent or obstruct the transmission or delivery of any message, or
(b)
to intercept or to acquaint himself with the contents of any message, or
(c)
to commit mischief, 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, he shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with
both.
25-A.
Injury to or interference with a telegraph line or post. If,
in any case not provided for by Section 25, any person deals with any property
and thereby willfully or negligently damages any telegraph line, post or works
duly placed on such property in accordance with the provisions of this Act, he
shall be liable to pay the Telegraph Authority such expenses (if any) as may be
incurred in making good such damage, and shall also, if ‘the telegraphic
communication is by reason of the damage so caused interrupted, he shall be
punished with a fine which may extend to one thousand rupees:---
Provided
that the provisions of this section shall not apply where such damage or
interruption is caused by a person dealing with any property in the legal
exercise of a right if he has complied with the provisions of Section 19-A(1).
25-B.
Theft on Telegraph Line. If any person commits theft
of a telegraph line, copper wire cable or cable accessory, he shall be punished
with rigorous imprisonment for a term which is not less than one year and not
more than seven years and also with fine.
Explanation.--
In this section, ‘theft’ has the same meaning as in the Pakistan Penal Code.
1860 (Act XLV of 1860).
25-C.
Penalty for tampering, etc., of telegraph line.
Any person, including a Telegraph Officer, who tempers with or uses a telegraph
line or telegraph in order to cause wrongful loss to the Government or to any
subscriber or to cause wrongful gain to any subscriber or any other person
shall, without prejudice to any action which the Telegraph Authority is
competent to take under this Act, be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for
a tern which is not less than one year and not more than seven year, with or
without fine.
25-D. Penalty for causing annoyance, etc. Any person, including a Telegraph Officer, who uses any telephone,
public or private, for causing annoyance or intimidation to any person, whether
a subscriber or not, or for obnoxious[1]
calls shall, without prejudice to any other action which the Telegraph
Authority is competent to make under this Act, be punishable with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
25-E.
Application of Chapter XX, Act V of 1898. The
provisions of Chapter XX of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of
1898) shall apply to the trial of offences punishable under this Act.
25-F.
Burden of proof in certain cases. Any person who is found to be in
possession of, or having under his control, without lawful authority, telegraph
line, copper wire cable or cable accessory of a kind notified by the Telegraph
Authority to be generally used by the Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone
Department shall, unless he proves that he has such authority, be deemed to
have committed the offence punishable under Section 25-B.
26.
Telegraph Officer or other official making away with or altering or unlawfully
intercepting or disclosing messages or divulging[2]
purport of signals. If 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,---
(a)
willfully secrets, makes away with or alters any messages which he has received
for transmission or delivery, or
(b)
willfully and otherwise than in obedience to an order of the Federal Government
or of a Provincial Government, or of an officer specially authorized by the
Federal or a Provincial Government 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 contentions of any message to
any person not entitled to receive the same, or
(c)
divulges the purport of any telegraphic signal to any person not entitled to
become acquainted with the same, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a
turn which may extend to three years or with fine, or with both.
27.
Telegraph Officer fraudulently sending messages without payment.
If any Telegraph Officer transmits by telegraph any message on which the charge
prescribed by the Federal Government, or by a person licensed under this Act,
as the case may be, has not been paid, intending thereby to defraud the Federal
Government or that person, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
28.
Misconduct. If 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 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 if any Telegraph
Officer loiters or delays in the transmission or delivery of any message, he
shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three
months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
29. Sending fabricated or absence message. If any person transmits or causes to be transmitted by telegraph a
message which he knows or has reason to believe to be false or fabricated, or a
message which is indecent or obscene, he shall be punished with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
29-A.
Penalty. If any person, without due authority,-
(a)
makes or issues any document of a nature reasonably calculated to cause it to
be believed that the document has been issued by, or under the authority of,
the Director-General, Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone Department], or
(b)
makes on any document any mark in limitation of, or similar to, or purporting
to be, any stamp or mark of any telegraph office under the Director-General,
Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone Department, or a mark of a nature reasonably
calculated to cause it to be believed that the document so marked has been
issued, by, or under the authority of, the Director-General, Pakistan Telegraph
and Telephone Department, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to
fifty rupees.
30. Retaining a message delivered by mistake. If any person fraudulently retains, or willfully 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, he shall be punished with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
31.
Bribery. A Telegraph Officer shall be deemed a public servant within
the meaning of Sections 161, 162, 163, 164 and 165 of the Pakistan Penal Code,
1860 (XLV of 1860) and in the definition of ‘legal remuneration’ contained in
the said section 161, the word ‘Government’ shall, for the purposes pf this
Act, be deemed to include a person licensed under this Act.
32. Attempts to commit offences.
Whoever, attempts to commit any offence punishable under this Act shall be
punished with the punishment herein provided for the offence.
PART V
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
33.
Power to employ additional police in places where mischief to telegraphs is
repeatedly committed. (1) Whenever it appears to the
Provincial Government that any act causing or likely to cause wrongful damage
to any telegraph is repeatedly and maliciously committed in any place, and that
the employment of an additional police-force in that place is thereby rendered necessary,
the Provincial Government may send such additional police-force as it thinks
fit to be place, and employ the same therein so long as, in the opinion of that
Government, the necessity of doing so continues.
(2)
The inhabitants of the place shall be charged with the cost of the additional
police-force, and the District Magistrate shall, subject to the orders of the
Provincial Government assess the proportion in which the cost shall be paid by
the inhabitants according to his judgment of their respective means.
(3)
All moneys payable under sub-section (2) shall be recoverable either under the
warrant of a Magistrate by distress and sale of the moveable property of the
defaulter within the local limits of his jurisdiction, or by suit in any
competent Court.
(4)
The Provincial Government may, by order in writing, define the limits of any
place for the purposes of this section.
34.
Application of Act to Acceding Stales. Omitted
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