[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Search] [Feedback] | ||
Northern Irish Legislation |
||
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Northern Irish Legislation >> POST OFFICE (PROTECTION) ACT 1884 |
[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Download] [Help]
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
© 1884 Crown Copyright
BAILII:
Copyright Policy |
Disclaimers |
Privacy Policy |
Feedback
URL: http://www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act/poa1884250/s11.html