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CAP. 411A

Kenya Information and Communications

[Rev. 2011

(c) fraudulently puts, alters, removes or erases any official mark
on a postal article;
(d) maliciously and without authority, the proof of which
authority shall lie on the person charged, opens, destroys,
detains or secretes any article after it has been transmitted by
post and before it has been delivered to the addressee;
(e) without the authority of the public postal licensee, the proof
of whose authority shall lie on the person charged, knowingly
enters any premises used for the purpose of the postal services
and to which the public has no right of access;
(f) refuses or fails to leave any such premises when called upon
so to do by an authorised employee of the public postal
licensee; or
(g) wilfully and unlawfully obstructs or impedes any employee
of the public postal licensee or any other person in the
discharge of his duties in connection with postal services,
commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to an imprisonment
for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding three
hundred thousand shillings or to both.
Using of fictitious
stamps.
1 of 2009, s. 22.

73. Any person who—
(a) makes or knowingly utters, deals in, hawks, distributes,
or sells any fictitious stamps or knowingly uses for postal
purposes any fictitious stamps;
(b) has in his possession without lawful excuse any fictitious
stamp;
(c) makes, issues or sends by post any stamped or embossed
envelope, wrapper, card, form or paper in imitation of one
issued under the authority of the public postal licensee;
commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding five hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding two years, or to both.

Use of certain words.
1 of 2009, s.23.

74. Any person who, without authority from the Commission,
places or maintains or permits to be placed or maintained in or on any
house, wall, door, window, box, pillar or other place, belonging to him
or under his control, any of the following words, letters, or marks—

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