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Post and Telecommunication-related Matters Act, 1958 (Act No. 44 of 1958)

Chapter VII : Offences and Penalties

99. Unauthorized use of words "yellow page directory", "telex directory", "telephone directory", etc.

[Heading substituted by section 31 of Act No. 22 of 2011]

 

 

Any person who without the authority of the telecommunications company—

(a)        [Paragraph (a) deleted by section 31 of Act No. 22 of 2011];

(b)        [Paragraph (b) deleted by section 31 of Act No. 22 of 2011];

(c) in connection with any publication or proposed publication, or in any invitation, prospectus, order form, notice, invoice or advertisement relating to any publication, uses the words "telephone directory", "yellow page directory", "yellow pages", "telex directory" or any other word or a mark, in circumstances or in a manner which may imply or may give reasonable cause for believing that such a publication or proposed publication is a telephone directory, yellow page directory, telex directory or other publication published on the authority of the telecommunications company,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding R2000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

 

[Section 99 substituted by section 31 of Act No. 22 of 2011]