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228 PDFTitle:SUMMARY OFFENCES ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:20Heading:Offences in connection with telephone calls or messages or telegramsVersion Date:30/06/1997

Any person who-

        (a) sends any message by telegraph, telephone, wireless telegraphy or wireless telephony which is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
        (b) sends by any such means any message, which he knows to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any other person; or
        (c) persistently makes telephone calls without reasonable cause and for any such purpose as aforesaid,
shall be liable to a fine of $1000 and to imprisonment for 2 months.
(Added 36 of 1935 s. 2. Amended 90 of 1991 s. 28)
[cf. 1935 c. 15 s. 10(2) U.K.]