ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (REGULATION) [ CAP. 399. 31 delivery of any message or cancels or destroys any message or an application for the transmission of any message without a good cause; (d) wilfully represents a message as having been sent by a person other than the sender or as being addressed to a person other than the addressee, or an application for the transmission of a message as having been made by a person other than the applicant, without good cause; (e) wilfully cancels or destroys any message not addressed to him or an application for the transmission of a message, without good cause; or (f) unlawfully withdraws from the control of an undertaking, or of an individual employed or detailed for duty with, or attached to, an undertaking, a message addressed to another person, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine (multa) not exceeding twenty-five thousand euro (€25,000) or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (4) Any person who assaults or obstructs or impedes any officer, employee or agent of an undertaking in the exercise of his duties with such undertaking shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall on conviction be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding fifteen thousand euro (€15,000) or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (5) Any person who, without being duly authorised at law, uses any apparatus for the purpose of deliberately interfering with radiocommunications shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall on conviction be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding fifty thousand euro (€50,000) and, or to a daily fine (multa) not exceeding one thousand euro (€1,000) for each day of noncompliance, and, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or to such fine or fines and to such imprisonment. 49. Any person who by means communications network or apparatus - of an electronic (a) threatens the commission of any crime; or (b) with intent to extort money or any other thing, or to make any gain, or with intent to induce another person to do or omit from doing any thing, threatens to accuse or to make a complaint against, or to defame, that or another person; or (c) makes any other improper use thereof, s h a l l b e g u i l t y o f a n o ff e n c e u n d e r t h i s A c t a n d s h a l l , o n conviction, be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding twenty five thousand euro (€25,000) and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine (multa) not exceeding five hundred euro (€500) for each day during which the offence continues; for each day during Use of electronic communications apparatus to make threats. Added by: XXX. 2007.33. Re-numbered by: XII. 2010.5; IX. 2011.34. Amended by: XI.2018.32; LII. 2021.46.

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