PART IV
PENALTIES
1[20.
Establishing, maintaining or working unauthorized telegraph.__ (1) If any person
establishes, maintains or works a telegraph within 2[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 Cri minal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898),
offences under this section in respect of a wireless telegraph shall, for the purposes of the said Code,
be bailable and noncognizable.
(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 3[Govern ment].
4[20A.
Breach of condition 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 on railway land. If 5[the Railway Administration] or
an officer of 5[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 signalroom, trespass in telegraph Office or obstruction. If any person__
6[(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]
1 Subs. by the Indian Te1egrnph (Amdt.) Act, 1914 (7 of 1914), s. 6, for the original section.
2 Subs. by A. O., 1949, Sch., for “British India”.
3 Subs. by A.O., 1961, Art, 2, for “His Majesty” (with effect from the 23rd March, 1956).
4 Section 20A ins. by Act 7 of 1914, s. 7.
5 Subs. by the Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1975 (67 of 1975), s. 14, for “a Railway Company”.
6 Subs. ibid., s. 15, for clause “(a)”.
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