31. Replacement of section 47 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 47 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:-

47. Every person who, with the intention of-

(a)

preventing or obstructing the transmission or delivery of any message, telecommunication service or data; or

(b)

interrupting or acquainting himself with the contents of, any message or data; or

(c)

transmitting any message or data which he has no authority to transmit; or

(d)

committing mischief or any act of vandalism, damages, removes or tampers with any submarine cable, submarine cable landing station or telecommunication installation line, post or other thing whatever being part of or used in or about any telecommunication system or submarine cable in the provision of any service within Sri Lanka or outside the exclusive economic zone of Sri Lanka, by

“Penalty for intentionally damaging or tampering with tele communication installation

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means thereof commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred million rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.”.

Read on from s 32