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172 Laws of Malaysia ACT 574<br />

Mischief by injury to telegraph cable, wire, etc.<br />

431A. Whoever commits mischief by cutting or injuring any electric<br />

telegraph cable, wire, line, post, instrument or apparatus for signalling,<br />

shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend<br />

to two years or with fine or with both.<br />

Explanation—The injuring here must be of such a nature as to prevent<br />

the use of the electric telegraph cable, wire or line, for telegraphing,<br />

otherwise the offence will be punishable under section 426.<br />

Mischief by causing inundation or obstruction to public drainage,<br />

attended with damage<br />

432. Whoever commits mischief by doing any act which causes,<br />

or which he knows to be likely to cause, an inundation or an<br />

obstruction to any public drainage attended with injury or damage,<br />

shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend<br />

to five years or with fine or with both.<br />

Mischief by destroying or moving or rendering less useful a<br />

lighthouse or seamark, or by exhibiting false lights<br />

433. Whoever commits mischief by destroying or moving any<br />

lighthouse or other light used as a seamark, or any seamark or<br />

buoy or other thing placed as a guide for navigators, or by any act<br />

which renders any such lighthouse, seamark, buoy or other such<br />

thing as aforesaid less useful as a guide for navigators, shall be<br />

punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven<br />

years or with fine or with both.<br />

Mischief by destroying or moving, etc., a landmark fixed by<br />

public authority<br />

434. Whoever commits mischief by destroying or moving any<br />

landmark fixed by the authority of a public servant, or by any act<br />

which renders such landmark less useful as such, shall be punished<br />

with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or<br />

with fine or with both.

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