TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 83 Theft of telecommunications messages, &c.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 83

83. (1) A person shall not-

   (a)  with intent to defraud or to prevent the due sending or delivery of a
        telecommunications message, take a telecommunications message from the
        possession of an officer or employee of the Commission, a person
        acting for or on behalf of the Commission under a contract with the
        Commission or an employee of such a person;

   (b)  with intent to defraud, take a telecommunications message from any
        place or vehicle in use by the Commission in the performance of its
        functions; or

   (c)  steal, secrete or conceal or, except in the performance of duties as
        an officer or employee, destroy, a telecommunications message.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.

(2) A person shall not receive a telecommunications message knowing it to have
been stolen, or unlawfully taken, secreted or concealed.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.