Offences in connection with telephone calls or messages or telegrams
Version 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.]