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[(ee) the charges in respect of any application for providing any telegraph line, appliance or apparatus;]
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[(eea) the manner in which the fund may be administered;
(eeb) the criteria based on which sums may be released;]
(f) the charges in respect of—
(i) the establishment, maintenance, working, repair, transfer or shifting of any telegraph line,
appliance or apparatus;
(ii) the services of operators operating such line, appliance or apparatus;
(g) the matters in connection with the transition from a system where under rights and obligations
relating to the establishment, maintenance, working, repair, transfer or shifting of any telegraph line,
appliance or apparatus for telegraphic communication attach by virtue of any agreement to a system
whereunder such rights and obligations attach by virtue of rules made under this section;
(h) the time at which, the manner in which, the conditions under which and the persons by
whom the rates, charges and fees mentioned in this sub-section shall be paid and the furnishing
of security for the payment of such rates, charges and fees;
(i) the payment of compensation to the Central Government for any loss incurred in connection
with the provision of any telegraph line, appliance or apparatus for the benefit of any person—
(a) where the line, appliance or apparatus is, after it has been connected for use, given up by
that person before the expiration of the period fixed by these rules, or
(b) where the work done for the purpose of providing the line, appliance or apparatus is,
before it is connected for use, rendered abortive by some act or omission on the part of that
person;
(j) the principles according to which and the authority by whom the compensation referred to in
clause (i) shall be assessed;
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[(jj) the qualifications to be possessed and the examinations, if any, to be passed by the persons
employed for the establishment, maintenance or working of any telegraph and the fees to be charged
for admission to such examinations;]
(k) any other matter for which provision is necessary for the proper and efficient conduct of all
or any telegraphs under this Act.]
(3) When making rules for the conduct of any telegraph established, maintained or worked by any
person licensed under this Act, the Central Government may by the rules prescribe fines for any breach
of the same:
Provided that the fines so prescribed shall not exceed the following limits, namely:—
(i) when the person licensed under this Act is punishable for the breach, one thousand rupees, and
in the case of a continuing breach a further fine of two hundred rupees for every clay after the first
during the whole or any part of which the breach continues;
(ii) when a servant of the person so licensed, or any other person, is punishable for the breach,
one-fourth of the amounts specified in clause (i).
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[(4) Nothing in this section or in any rules made hereunder shall be construed as—
(a) precluding the Central Government from entering into an agreement with a person for the
establishment, maintenance and working by that Government on terms and conditions specified in
the agreement, of any telegraph line, appliance or apparatus for the purpose of affording means of
telegraphic communication, where having regard to the number of the lines, appliance or apparatus
1. Ins. by Act 48 of 1974, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-6-1975).
2. Ins. by Act 8 of 2004, s. 4 (w.e.f. 1-4-2002).
3. Ins. by Act 15 of 1961, s. 3.
4. Ins. by Act 47 of 1957, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-7-1959).
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