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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Telegraph Act, 1885 Rule 48

RULE 48 .

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Telegraph Act, 1885 Rule 48 is part of Telegraph Act, 1885 - RULE 48 .. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

Each of the following shall be counted as one word only :-

(i) Service indications written in the abridged from authorised in rule 18 (d).

(ii) The name of the telegraph office of destination when written as given in the Post and Telegraph Guide (Rule 33) or when completed by the name of the district or the province, if the name of the office has not yet been published in the Post and Telegraph Guide.

(iii) Every code words which fulfils the requirements of rules 24, 25 and 26.

(iv) Save as provided under rule 137 every isolated character, letter or figure as well as every sign of punctuation, apostrophe or hyphen transmitted at the request of the sender.

(v) An underline.

(vi) Parenthesis (the two signs forming).

(vii) In telegraphic money orders, the amount expressed in both figures and words, the name of the post office of issue, the name of the post office of payment, and that of the locality in which the payee lives,

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