(2) “telegraph officer” means any person employed either permanently or temporarily in
connection with a tele graph established, maintained or worked by 1[the 2[Fede ral
Government]] or by a person licensed under this Act:
3[(3) “message” means any communication, whether in written, printed, pictorial or spoken
form, transmitted, emitted, made, received or delivered by telegraph or given to a
telegraph officer to be transmitted or emitted, and in cludes all contents thereof;
(4) “telegraph line” means a wire or cable used for the pur pose of telegraph, including any
casing, coating, tube, tunnel, duct or pipe enclosing the same, and includes any apparatus
connected therewith :];
(5) “post” means a post, pole, standard, stay, strut or other 4* * contrivance for carrying,
suspending or supporting a telegraph line 5[and includes masts and towers required for
telegraph]:
(6) “telegraph authority” means the 6[DirectorGeneral, Pakistan Telegraph and Telephone
Department], and includes any officer empowered by him to perform all or any of the
functions of the telegraph authority under this Act:
(7) “local authority” means any municipal committee, district board, body of port
commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by 7[the 8[Federal] or
any Provincial Government] with, the control or management of any municipal or local
fund 9[:]
10[(8) “works” means a manhole, cabinet, housing for cable repeater or radio repeater or any
other structure above or under the ground, required for a post or telephone line:].
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1 Subs. by A. O., 1937, for “the Govt”.
2 Subs. by the Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1975, (67 of 1975), s. 2, for “Central Government”.
3 Subs. ibid., for the original clauses (3) and (4).
4 The words “above ground”, omitted ibid.
5 Added ibid.
6 Subs. by the Posts and Telegraphs (Amdt.) Act, 1962 (5 of 1962), s. 2 (1), (with effect from the 1st July, 1962), for “Director General of [Posts and Telegraphs]”. The words in crotchets
were subs. by the Indian Post Office and Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1914 (14 of 1914), s. 2, for “Telegraphs”.
7 Subs. by A. O., 1937, for “Govt”.
8 Subs. by F. A. O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table for “Central”.
9 Subs. by Act 67 of 1975, s. 3, for full stop.
10 Added ibid.
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