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(1) A person who is or has been an employee of an operator shall not:-

(a) send or attempt to send by means of communication equipment or facility any message which to his knowledge is false or misleading or is likely to prejudice the efficiency of any service or endanger the safety of any person; or

(b) use any communications equipment or facilitates with intent to obtain information relating to the content, sender or addressee of any message which neither the person using the equipment or facilities nor any person on whose behalf he is acting is authorized to receive; or

(c) except, in the course of legal proceedings or for the purpose of any report of legal proceedings, disclose any information relating to the contents, sender or addressee of any message, being information which would not have come to his knowledge but for the use of communications equipment or facilities by him or by another person in the course of his duty as an employee of the licensed operator unless authorized by the Authority.

(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of not less than ₵200,000 or imprisonment of not more than 2 years of both.