TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government Enacted1885

Telegraph Act, 1885

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Preamble1 - Telegraph Act, 1885

Rule1 - RULE 18B Application of Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951 to Telegrams in Devanagri Characters

Rule2 - RULE 2 Definitions

Rule3 - RULE 3 .

Rule4 - RULE 4 .

Rule5 - RULE 5 .

Rule6 - RULE 6 Translation of Telegrams

Rule7 - RULE 7 Secrecy

Rule8 - RULE 8 General

Rule9 - RULE 9 Acceptance of Inland Telegrams

Rule10 - RULE 10 .

Rule12 - RULE 12 .

Rule13 - RULE 13 .

Rule15 - RULE 15 .

Rule17 - RULE 17 Objectionable Telegrams

Rule18 - RULE 18 .

Rule19 - RULE 19 Erasures, etc.

Rule20 - RULE 20 Language, etc.

Rule21 - RULE 21 .

Rule22 - RULE 22 .

Rule23 - RULE 23 .

Rule24 - RULE 24 .

Rule25 - RULE 25 .

Rule26 - RULE 26 .

Rule27 - RULE 27 .

Rule28 - RULE 28 .

Rule29 - RULE 29 .

Rule30 - RULE 30 .

Rule31 - RULE 31 .

Rule32 - RULE 32 Arrangement of a Telegram

Rule33 - RULE 33 Address

Rule34 - RULE 34 .

Rule35 - RULE 35 .

Rule36 - RULE 36 .

Rule37 - RULE 37 .

Rule38 - RULE 38 .

Rule39 - RULE 39 .

Rule40 - RULE 40 .

Rule41 - RULE 41 .

Rule42 - RULE 42 .

Rule43 - RULE 43 .

Rule44 - RULE 44 Signature

Rule45 - RULE 45 What is counted

Rule46 - RULE 46 Stops, etc.

Rule47 - RULE 47 preamble

Rule48 - RULE 48 .

Rule49 - RULE 49 Plain or Secret language Telegrams

Rule50 - RULE 50 Mixed telegrams

Rule51 - RULE 51 .

Rule52 - RULE 52 Groups of Figures, Letters, Commercial Marks, etc.

Rule53 - RULE 53 .

Rule54 - RULE 54 Signs, etc, used with Figures or Letters

Rule55 - RULE 55 Meteorological telegrams

Rule56 - RULE 56 Abbreviations

Rule57 - RULE 57 Combinations or Alterations of Words

Rule58 - RULE 58 Surnames

Rule59 - RULE 59 .

Rule60 - RULE 60 Inland telegrams for delivery in India

Rule61 - RULE 61 .

Rule62 - RULE 62 .

Rule64 - RULE 64 Charges how paid

Rule67 - RULE 67 Receipt

Rule68 - RULE 68 Acceptance of Telegrams on Deposit Account System and Guarantee System

Rule69 - RULE 69 Telegram from Ships

Rule70 - RULE 70 Telegrams from Military Field Telegraph Offices

Rule71 - RULE 71 Recovery of Bearing and other charges from Addressee

Rule72 - RULE 72 Undercharge

Rule73 - RULE 73 Overcharge

Rule74 - RULE 74 Order of Transmission

Rule75 - RULE 75 .

Rule76 - RULE 76 .

Rule79 - RULE 79 Transmission in duplicate

Rule80 - RULE 80 .

Rule81 - RULE 81 .

Rule82 - RULE 82 According to Address and Order

Rule83 - RULE 83 .

Rule84 - RULE 84 Free Delivery Limits

Rule85 - RULE 85 .

Rule86 - RULE 86 Persons to whom Telegrams may be delivered

Rule87 - RULE 87 Open Delivery

Rule89 - RULE 89 Delivery on ships

Rule90 - RULE 90 Reply given to Messenger

Rule91 - RULE 91 Undelivered Telegrams

Rule92 - RULE 92 .

Rule93 - RULE 93 Unclaimed Telegrams

Rule94 - RULE 94 .

Rule95 - RULE 95 .

Rule96 - RULE 96 .

Rule97 - RULE 97 .

Rule98 - RULE 98 .

Rule99 - RULE 99 .

Rule100 - RULE 100 .

Rule101 - RULE 101 .

Rule102 - RULE 102 .

Rule105 - RULE 105 .

Rule106 - RULE 106 .

Rule107 - RULE 107 .

Rule108 - RULE 108 .

Rule109 - RULE 109 .

Rule110 - RULE 110 Directors about delivery

Rule114 - RULE 114 .

Rule115 - RULE 115 .

Rule116 - RULE 116 .

Rule117 - RULE 117 Post or Special Messenger

Rule118 - RULE 118 .

Rule119 - RULE 119 .

Rule120 - RULE 120 .

Rule121 - RULE 121 .

Rule122 - RULE 122 .

Rule123 - RULE 123 .

Rule125 - RULE 125 Service indication

Rule126 - RULE 126 Acceptance

Rule127 - RULE 127 Order of Transmission

Rule128 - RULE 128 Text

Rule129 - RULE 129 Delivery

Rule130 - RULE 130 Acceptance and Delivery under the Phonogram System

Rule130C - RULE 130C.

Rule131 - RULE 131 .

Rule132 - RULE 132 .

Rule133 - RULE 133 .

Rule134 - RULE 134 .

Rule135 - RULE 135 .

Rule136 - RULE 136 .

Rule137 - RULE 137 .

Rule138 - RULE 138 .

Rule139 - RULE 139 .

Rule140 - RULE 140 Press Telegrams accepted without Prepayment

Rule142 - RULE 142 .

Rule143 - RULE 143 Classification and Order of Priority for State Telegrams

Rule144 - RULE 144 Charges

Rule145 - RULE 145 .

Rule146 - RULE 146 .

Rule147 - RULE 147 Language

Rule148 - RULE 148 Service Indication and Payment

Rule149 - RULE 149 State Telegrams without Prepayment

Rule150 - RULE 150 At Railway Telegraph Offices

Rule151 - RULE 151 Abbreviated Addresses

Rule152 - RULE 152 .

Rule153 - RULE 153 .

Rule154 - RULE 154 .

Rule155 - RULE 155 .

Rule156 - RULE 156 .

Rule157 - RULE 157 .

Rule158 - RULE 158 .

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