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Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983
Fraudulent use of telecommunications system.
99.—(1) A person who wilfully causes the company to suffer loss in respect of any rental, fee or charge properly payable for the use of the telecommunications system or any part of the system or who by any false statement or misrepresentation or otherwise with intent to defraud avoids or attempts to avoid payment of any such rental, fee or charge shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who connects or causes to be connected any apparatus or device to, or places or causes to be placed any apparatus or device in association or conjunction with, the telecommunications system operated by the company or any part of the system the effect of which might result in the provision by the company of a service to any person without payment of the appropriate rental, fee or charge shall be guilty of an offence.
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C53
References to "the company" or to "Bord Telecom Éireann" construed as references to “a licensed operator” (9.04.1999) by Postal and Telecommunications Services (Amendment) Act 1999 (5/1999), s. 7(1), (3), S.I. No. 87 of 1999, art. 3.
Application to all licenced operators of certain provisions.
7.—(1) A reference to the company or to Bord Telecom Éireann, as the case may be, in section 13 of the Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951, sections 52(2), 96(d), 98, 99 and 110 of the Act of 1983, section 7 of the Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1988, and in the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act, 1993 shall be construed as a reference to “a licensed operator”.
(2) ...
(3) In this section “licensed operator” means the company or any person licensed under subsection (2) or (3) of section 111 of the Act of 1983.