Rev. 2011]
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licensee, affixes any placard, advertisement, notice, document, board Affixing materials on
or other thing in or on, or paints tar, or in any way disfigures any post post office.
office, commits an offence and shall, be liable on conviction to a fine 1 of 2009, s.19.
not exceeding three hundred thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for
a term not exceeding two years, or to both.
70. A person who, being an employee of the public postal licensee Unlawful opening
or being employed in connection with postal services—
or delivery, etc.
(a) opens or permits to be opened any postal article otherwise
than in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
of postal articles
by employees of
licensee.
(b) knowingly reveals, discloses or in any way makes known
the contents of, or any information in relation to, any postal
article opened under the authority of this Act, otherwise than
in accordance with the law;
(c) knowingly destroys, detains or secretes any mailbag or postal
article otherwise than in accordance with this Act;
(d) knowingly permits any unauthorised person to interfere in
any way with any mail bag or postal article; or
(e) fraudulently or with intent to deceive prepares, alters,
secretes or destroys any document used for the purposes of
postal services,
commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not
exceeding two hundred thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding two years, or to both.
71. Any person, who without lawful excuse, the proof of which
shall lie on the person charged, sends or procures to be sent by post, a
postal article which has thereon or enclosed therein any word, drawing
or picture of a scurrilous, threatening, obscene or grossly offensive
character, commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable a fine
not exceeding three hundred thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for
a term not exceeding three years or to both.
Transmitting
offensive material
by post.
1 of 2009, s.20.
72. Any person who, not being an employee of the public postal Unlawful opening
licensee or not being employed in connection with postal services— of postal articles etc
(a) opens any postal article otherwise than in accordance with
this Act.
(b) interferes in any way with any mailbag or postal article
opened under the authority of this Act, otherwise than in
accordance with the law;
by non-employees of
licensee.
1 of 2009, s. 21.