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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 85 Sending false telecommunications messages.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 85

Sending false telecommunications messages.
85. A person shall not-

   (a)  knowingly and without a person's authority, submit, or cause to be
        submitted, to the Commission as a telecommunications message signed or
        to be sent by that person, a telecommunications message that was not
        so signed or to be sent;

   (b)  knowingly submit, or cause to be submitted, to the Commission a
        telecommunications message signed with the name of a fictitious
        person;

   (c)  wilfully and without the authority of the person sending a
        telecommunications message, alter that telecommunications message; or

   (d)  knowingly write, issue or deliver a document purporting to be a
        telecommunications message transmitted by the Commission knowing that
        it is not such a message.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.