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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 85
Sending false telecommunications messages.
85. A person shall not-
(a) knowingly and without a person's authority, submit, or cause to be
submitted, to the Commission as a telecommunications message signed or
to be sent by that person, a telecommunications message that was not
so signed or to be sent;
(b) knowingly submit, or cause to be submitted, to the Commission a
telecommunications message signed with the name of a fictitious
person;
(c) wilfully and without the authority of the person sending a
telecommunications message, alter that telecommunications message; or
(d) knowingly write, issue or deliver a document purporting to be a
telecommunications message transmitted by the Commission knowing that
it is not such a message.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
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