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| (1) Every person who persistently makes telephone calls without reasonable excuse for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience to any telecommunication officer or any person, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five, thousand rupees, and, in default of payment of such fine, to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months. |
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| (2) It shall be lawful for a telecommunication officer to intercept, monitor, trace or record a call of the description referred to in subsection (1) or to refuse to allow such a call to be made. |
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| (3) Every person who unlawfully and wilfully listens into a telephone conversation between two other persons shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and. such imprisonment. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts