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Compensation and fine for injury to telegraphic line of the Post Office and for interruption to telegraphic communication. 8. Where any undertakers, body, or person, by themselves or by their agents, destroy or injure any telegraphic line of the [Post Office], such undertakers, body, or person shall not only be liable to pay to the [Post Office] such expenses (if any) as [it] may incur in making good the said destruction or injury, but also, if the telegraphic communication is carelessly or wilfully interrupted, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds per day for every day during which such interruption continues. Where the undertakers, body, or person liable to pay such daily fine as aforesaid to the [Post Office] are not authorised to execute such works as may be required for remedying the interruption, the interruption shall be deemed to continue either for the time during which it actually continues or for such less time as in the opinion of the court having cognizance of the case would have been sufficient for remedying the interruption by the [Post Office]. The [Post Office] may, instead of taking proceedings for the recovery of such daily fine as aforesaid, proceed for the recovery of a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, to which the undertakers, body, or person shall be liable on summary conviction. An act done to a telegraphic line in the course of work undertaken by any undertakers, body, or person in the legal exercise of a right shall not be deemed to be wilful destruction of or injury to such telegraphic line, if due notice of the intended exercise of such right has been given to the [Post Office], that is to say, the notice required to be given in pursuance of any Act of Parliament or agreement, or where there is no Act of Parliament or agreement requiring such notice, fourteen clear days notice. This section shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in derogation of any other power or means which the [Post Office] may have of recovering damages in respect of any such destruction or injury as in this section mentioned under any other Act of Parliament or at common law or otherwise, provided that [it] shall not proceed under this Act and under any other Act or law in respect of the same destruction or injury.
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