Section No :  
1980 Revised version
TELEGRAM COPYRIGHT
Marginal Notes
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telegram Copyright Ordinance.
2. Press messages by telegraph no to be published during forty-eight hours after receipt without consent of the receiver.
3. Unlawful publishing an offence.
4. Protected messages how to be printed.
5. During forty-eight hours protected intelligence not to be transmitted to any person outside Sri Lanka.
6. What to be deemed prima facie evidence of publication of message.
7. Limitation of Ordinance.
8. Interpretation.