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Part 6 · Offences and Penalties

62. Offences by officer, employee or agent of public telecommunication licensees

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Last amended by an amending law of 2005.

(1)

Any officer, employee or agent of a public telecommunication licensee who —

(a)

wilfully divulges, makes away with or alters any message or record of any message; or

(b)

except in obedience to an order under the hand of the Minister or the direction of a court, wilfully omits to transmit or intercepts or acquaints himself or herself with or detains any message (or part of it) or deliberately causes a call or connection to be disconnected or not to be connected,shall be guilty of an offence.

(2)

Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to —

(a)

any act or thing done by an officer, employee or agent of a public telecommunication licensee for or in connection with the installation of a telecommunication line, equipment or the operation or maintenance of a telecommunication system; or

(b)

the tracing of the origin of any telephone call at the request of the subscriber of a telecommunication service.[42

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