PART X - OFFENCES 

(a) an individual licence issued or deemed to have been issued under Part III; or 

(b) having registered or being deemed to have been registered under a general licence issued under Part III, shall be guilty of an offence. 

(2) Any person who- 

(a) knowingly connects unapproved terminal equipment to a licenced network; or 

(b) fails to comply with a request by a licencee to disconnect unapproved terminal equipment, shall be guilty of an offence. 

(3) Any person who dishonestly obtains a telecommunication service with intent to avoid payment of any charge applicable to the provision of that service shall be guilty of an offence. 

(4) Any person licenced to operate a telecommunication network or provide a telecommunication service who otherwise than in the course of his duty intentionally intercepts, interferes with the contents of, or modifies any message sent as part of a telecommunication service shall be guilty of an offence. 

(5) Any person licenced to operate a telecommunication network or provide a telecommunication service who discloses, other than in his official capacity- 

(a) the contents of a message sent as part of a telecommunication service; or 

(b) any information, other than directory information, about any user of a telecommunication service, shall be guilty of an offence. 

(6) Any person who, when required by a telecommunication operator to leave premises being used for the business of that operator, fails to comply with the requirement shall be guilty of an offence unless he has the authority to be on the premises.

(b) a radio station controlled by the Authority pursuant to section 43,  
without a licence issued or deemed to have been issued under Part  
IV shall be guilty of an offence.  

(2) Any person who operates, or who permits on premises that he owns or occupies the operation of, a television set without a licence provided for under section . 56 shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of K5,000 and to imprisonment for six months.  

(3) Any person who operates apparatus or equipment of any description as to cause harmful interference with radiocommunications shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of K20,000 and to imprisonment for two years.

(2) Any person who, knowingly without lawful excuse- 

(a) makes or sells or offers for sale, deals in or otherwise puts into circulation any fictitious postage stamp; 

(b) possesses any fictitious postage stamp;  

(c) makes or possesses any die, plate, instrument or material 
for making any fictitious postage stamp; 
(d) uses any fictitious postage stamp for the purposes of 
Malawi Posts;  

(e) imports any fictitious postage stamp, or any die, plate, 
instrument or materials for making such a fictitious postage stamp,  
shall be guilty of an offence. 

(3) Any postage stamp, die, plate, instrument or other materials 
found in the possession of any person in contravention of subsection 

(2) may be seized and, on conviction of such person, forfeited. 

(4) Any person who, without authority, opens, or tampers with, or secretes any postal articles shall be guilty of an offence. 

(5) Any person who, when required by an employee of Malawi Posts to leave premises being used for the business of Malawi Posts, fails to comply with the requirement shall be guilty of an offence.