Section 7
of Telecommunications Act 1950
Section 7
The Minister may make regulations for the conduct of all or any telecommunications established, maintained or worked by the Government or by persons licensed under this Act. or for the control of any telecommunication apparatus
(2)
The said regulations may provide for all or any of the following matters:
(i)
the rates at which, and the other conditions and restrictions subject to which, messages shall be transmitted, and apparatus, equipment and plant may be hired;
(ii)
the precautions to be taken for preventing the improper interception or disclosure of messages;
(iii)
the period for which and the conditions subject to which messages and other documents belonging to or being in the custody of telecommunication officers shall be preserved;
) the fees to be charged for searching for messages or other documents in the custody of any telecommunication officer;
(viii)
(x) prescribing all matters which under this Part may be prescribed.
(b)
The regulations may prescribe fines for any offence against the provisions thereof which shall not exceed the following limits:
(i)
where the offender is a person licensed under this Act and is punishable for the breach, five hundred dollars, and in the case of a continuing breach, a further fine of one hundred dollars for every day or part of a day after the first day during which the breach continues;
(ii)
where the offender is a servant of a person licensed as aforesaid or any other person, one-fourth of the amount specified in sub-paragraph (i).
(3)
Regulations made under this section shall be laid before the Dewan Ra'ayat at its first meeting after their publication in the Gazette.
(4)
If a resolution of the Dewan Ra'ayat is passed, at the meeting next after the meeting at which the regulations are laid in accordance with sub-section (3), to the effect that any such regulation shall be cancelled as from a specified date, the regulation shall be void as from that date, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done under the regulation prior to the said date.