56 (a) wilfully destroys, injures or removes any telecommunication line belonging to or used by a telecommunication licensee; or (b) wilfully disturbs, obstructs or impedes in any way the free use or working of any telecommunication line belonging to or used by a telecommunication licensee; or (c) without the consent of the licensee concerned, affixes or attaches any wire conductor or any other thing to any telecommunication line belonging to or used by a telecommunication licensee; or (d) interferes with or hinders the construction, alteration, restoration, maintenance or examination of any telecommunication line by a telecommunication licensee; or (e) without lawful excuse, inserts into a community service or other telephone apparatus for the purpose of making a call or otherwise any object other than a coin which is lawful currency in Zimbabwe or any object in substitution for any means of payment permitted by the licensee providing the apparatus in question; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment. 28 (2) Any person who sees any other person committing or attempting to commit an offence in terms of subsection (1) may, without warrant, arrest that other person. (3) A person who arrests another person in terms of subsection (2) shall forthwith notify that other person of the cause of the arrest. (4) A person arrested in terms of subsection (2) shall as soon as possible be brought to a police station or charge office and there, subject to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] relating to the release of an arrested person on bail, be detained until a warrant is obtained for his further detention upon a charge or until he is released by reason that no charge is preferred against him. (5) No person arrested in terms of subsection (2) shall be detained for longer than forty-eight hours unless a warrant for his further detention is obtained. 90 False declarations Any person who, in any declaration required to be made under this Act, makes any statement which he knows to be false or does not have reasonable grounds to believe to be true shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment. 29 91 Offences by employees and other persons (1) Any employee of a telecommunication licensee or a cellular telecommunication licensee who⎯ (a) makes use for his own purposes of knowledge he may acquire of the contents of a communication; or (b) wilfully mistimes, intercepts or prevents the transmission of a communication; or 28 Subsection amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001. 29 Section amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001.

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