THE INDIAN TELEGRAPH ACT, 1885 [Act, No. 13 of 1885] [22nd July, 1885] PREAMBLE An Act to amend the law relating to Telegraphs in India. whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to telegraphs in India; It is hereby enacted as follows:--
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) This Act may be called the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. 1[(2) It extends to the whole of India2[***].] (3) It shall come into force on the first day of October, 1885. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 45 of 1948 Section 2 for the former sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 3-9-1948). 2. The words "except the State of Hyderabad" Inserted by the A.O. 1950, omitted by Act 3 of 1951, Section 3 and Schedule (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIn section 3 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), clause (1) shall be renumbered as clause (1AA) and before clause (1AA) as so renumbered, the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:-- (1) "Fund" means the Universal Service Obligation Fund established under sub-section (1) of section 9A; (1A) "Universal Service Obligation" means the obligation to provide access to basic telegraph services to people in the rural and remote areas at affordable and reasonable prices;'.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe1[Government] shall not be responsible for any loss or damage which may occur in consequence of any telegraph officer failing in his duty with respect to the receipt, transmission or delivery of any message; and no such officer shall be responsible for any such loss or damage, unless he causes the same negligently, maliciously or fraudulently. __________________ 1. Substituted by the A.0.1950, for "Crown" which had been Substitute by the A.O., 1937, for "Secretary of State for India in Council".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section1[PART IIA Universal Service Obligation Fund __________________ 1. Part IIA (Containing sections 9A to 9D) Inserted by Act 8 of 2004, Section 5 (w.e.f. 1-4-2002).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe telegraph authority may, at any time, for the purpose of examining, repairing, altering or removing any telegraph line or post, enter on the property under, over, along, across, in or upon which the line or post has been placed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAny permission given by a local authority under section 10, clause (c) may be given subject to such reasonable conditions as that authority thinks fit to impose, as to the payment of any expenses to which the authority will necessarily be put in consequence of the exercise of the powers conferred by that section, or as to the time or mode of execution of any work, or as to any other thing connected with or relative to any work undertaken by the telegraph authroity under those powers.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionWhen, under the foregoing provisions of this Act, a telegraph line or post has been placed by the telegraph authority under, over, along, across, in or upon any property vested in or under the control or management of a local authority, and the local authority, having regard to circumstances which have arisen since the telegraph line or post was so placed, considers it expedient that it should be removed or that its position should be altered, the local authority may require the telegraph authroity to remove it or alter its poistion, as the case may be.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe telegraphauthority may, for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred upon it bythis Act in respect of any property vested in or under the control ormanagement of a local authority, alter the position thereunder of any pipe (notbeing a main) for the supply of gas or water, or of any drain (not being a maindrain): Providedthat-- (a)When the telegraph authroity desires to alter the position of any such pipe ordrain, it shall give reasonable notice of its intention to do so, specifyingthe time at which it will begin to do so, to the local authority, and, when thepipe or drain is not under the control of the local authority, to the personunder whose control the pipe or drain is; (b)a local authority or person receiving notice under clause (a) may send a personto superintend the work, and the telegraph authority shall execute the work tothe reasonable satisfaction of the person so sent.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....District Magistrate may, in his discretion, order that the telegraph authority shall be permitted to exercise them. (2) If, after the making of an order under sub-section (1), any person resists the exercise of those powers, or, having control over the property, does not give all facilities for their being exercised, he shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860). (3) If any dispute arises concerning the sufficiency of the compensation to be paid under section 10, clause (d), it shall, on application for that purpose by either of the disputing parties to the District Judge within whose jurisdiction the property is situate, be determined by him. (4) If any dispute arises as to the persons entitled to receive compensation, or as to the proportions in which the persons interested are entitled to share in it, the telegraph authority may pay into the Court of the District Judge such amount as he deems sufficient or, where all the disputing parties have in writing admitted the amount tendered to be sufficient or the amount has been determined under subsection (3), that amount; and the District Judge, after giving.....
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