No. 3
Offences by
officer,
employee or
agent of a
public postal
licensee
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
91
148. Any officer, employee or agent of a public postal
licensee who destroys or throws away any postal articles in the
course of transmission by post or anything contained therein(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
steals or otherwise dishonestly misappropriates or
secretes any postal article in the course or
transmission by post or anything contained therein;
except in obedience to an order under the hand of the
Minister or the direction of a court, willfully opens or
causes to be opened contrary to his duty any mail bag
or postal article in the course of transmission by post
or willfully detains or delays or causes to be detained
or delayed the mail bag or postal articles;
issues or causes to be issued a document specified for
use in connection with the remittance of money with
fraudulent intent;
fraudulently puts any wrong official mark or a postal
article;
fraudulently alters, removes or causes to disappear
any official mark on a postal article;
being entrusted with the delivery of any postal
article, knowingly demands or receives any sum of
money which is not chargeable under this Act;
sends by post, or puts into any mail bag any postal
article upon which postage has not been paid or
charged intending thereby to defraud the public
postal licensee of the postage on the postal article;
being entrusted with the preparation or custody of
any document relating to the public postal licensee,
fraudulently prepares the document incorrectly, or
alters, or secretes or destroys the document; or
being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or
postal article in the course of transmission by post
does any act with intent to induce the belief that he
has visited a place, or delivered a postal article or
mail bag, which he has not visited or delivered,