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Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885) Part V

Title: Supplemental Provision

State: Central

Year: 1885

.....or by suit in any competent court. (4) The State Government may, by order in writing, define the limits of any place for the purposes of this section. Section 34 - Application of Act to Presidency-towns 1[34. Application of Act to Presidency-towns (1) This Act, in its application to the Presidency-towns, shall be read as if for the words "District Magistrate" in section 16, sub-section (1), and section 17, sub-sections (2) and (3), for the words "Magistrate of the first or second class" in section 18, sub-section (1),2[and section 19A, sub-section (2)] and for the words "Magistrate" in section 18, sub-section (2), there had been enacted the word "Commissioner of Police" and for the words "District Judge" in section 16, sub-sections (3), (4) and (5), the words "Chief Judge of the Court of Small Causes". 2[***] (3) The fee in respect of an application to the Chief Judge of a Presidency Court of Small Causes under sub-section (3) of section 16 shall be the same as would be payable under the Court-fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), in respect of such an application to a District Judge beyond the limits of a Presidency-town, and fees for summonses and other processes in.....

Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885) Section 33

Title: Power to Employ Additional Police in Places Where Mischief to Telegraphs is Repeatedly Committed

State: Central

Year: 1885

(1) Whenever it appears to the State Government that any act causing or likely to cause wrongful damage to any telegraph is repeatedly and maliciously committed in any place, and that the employment of an additional police- force in that place is thereby rendered necessary, the State Government may send such additional police-force as it thinks fit to the place, and employ the same therein so long as, in the opinion of that Goverrnent, the necessity of doing so continues. (2) The inhabitants of the place shall be charged with the cost of the additional police-force, and the District Magistrate shall, subject to the orders of the State Government, assess the proportion in which the cost shall be paid by the inhabitants according to his judgment of their respective means. (3) All moneys payable under sub-section (2) shall be recoverable either under the warrant of a Magistrate by distress and sale of the movable property of the defaulter within the local limits of his jurisdiction, or by suit in any competent court. (4) The State Government may, by order in writing, define the limits of any place for the purposes of this section.

Telegraph Act, 1885 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1885

.....to amend th law relating to telegraphs in India; It is hereby enacted as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, LOCAL EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (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. SECTION 02: REPEAL AND SAVINGS [Rep. by the Repeating Act, 1938 (1 of 1938). Sec. 2 and Sch.] SECTION 03: DEFINITIONS -In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,- 3[(1) "telegraph" means any appliance, instrument, material or apparatus used or capable of use for transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, visual or other electro-magnetic emissions. Radio waves or Hertzian waves, galvanic, electric or magnetic means; Explanation.- "Radio waves" or Hertzian waves" means electromagnetic waves of frequencies lower than 3,000 giga-cycles per sound propagated in space without artificial guide.] (2) "telegraph officer" means any person employed either permanently or temporarily in connection with a telegraph established, maintained or worded by4[the Central Government] or by a.....