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POST OFFICE (PROTECTION) ACT 1884 - SECT 11



11. Every person who forges or wilfully and without due authority alters a
telegram or utters a telegram knowing the same to be forged, or wilfully and
without due authority altered, or who transmits by telegraph as a telegram, or
utters as a telegram, any message or communication which he knows to be not a
telegram, shall, whether he had or had not an intent to defraud, be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not
exceeding [#100], and, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment... for a
period not exceeding twelve months.

If any person, being in the employment of a telegraph company as defined by
this section

Improperly divulges to any person the purport of any telegram;

For the purposes of this section the expression "telegram" means a written or
printed message or communication sent to or delivered at a post office, or the
office of a telegraph company, for transmission by telegraph, or delivered
by... a telegraph company as a message or communication transmitted by
telegraph.

The expression "telegraph" has the same meaning as in "the Telegraph Act,
1869," and the Acts amending the same.

Ss.12, 1421 rep. by SLR 1898; 1908 c.48 s.92 sch.2; SLR 1953



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