30. Retaining a message delivered by mistake. If any person fraudulently retains, or wilfully
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 (XLV of 1860); and in the definition of “legal
remunera tion” contained in the said section 161, the word “Government” shall, for the purposes of
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.
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PART V
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
33. Power to employ additional police in places where mischief to telegraphs is repeatedly
committed. (1) Whenever it appears to the 1[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 policeforce in that place is thereby rendered necessary, the
1[Provincial Government] may send such additional policeforce as it thinks fit to the place, and
employ the same therein so long as, in the opinion of that Govern ment, the necessity of doing so
continues.
(2) The inhabitants of the place shall be charged with the cost of the additional policeforce, and
the District Magistrate shall, subject to the orders of the l[Provincial Government], assess the
proportion in which the cost shall be paid by the inha bitants according to his judgment of their
respective means.
(3) All moneys payable under subsection (2) shall be reco verable 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 1[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 States.] Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and
Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (XXVII of 1981), s. 3 and Sch. II
1 Subs. by A.O.,1937, for “L. G.”.
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