The Telegrams (Production) Ordinance

1706 Cap. 163] Telegrams (Production) CHAPTER 163. TELEGRAMS (PRODUCTION). ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION.

CHAPTER 163. TELEGRAMS (PRODUCTION). 11 of 1939. An Ordinance to Empower the Government to Require the Short title. Power to require the production of telegrams. Cap. 164 Cap. 165 Production of Telegrams in the Public Interest. (24TH JUNE, 1939.) 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telegrams (Production) Ordinance, and shall apply to the Colony and Protectorate. 2. (1) Where it appears to the Governor that such a course is· expedient in the public interest he may by warrant under his hand require any person who owns or controls any telegraph line or any apparatus for wireless telegraphy, used for the sending or receipt of telegrams to or from any place out of Sierra Leone to produce to him or to any person named in the warrant the originals and transcript, either of all telegrams, or of telegrams of any specified class or description, or of telegrams sent from or addressed to any specified person or place, sent to or received from any place out of Sierra Leone by means of any such line or apparatus, and all other papers relating to any such telegrams as aforesaid. (2) Any person who, on being required to produce any such original or transcript or paper as aforesaid, refuses or neglects to do so shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance, and shall, for each offence, be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not ·· exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (3) In this section the expression "telegram" shall have the same meaning as in the Telegraphs Ordinance, and the expression "wireless telegraphy" shall have the same meaning as in the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance.