POST OFFICE.
No. 6 of 1900.
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(3) does or attempts to do anything likely to injure the box, appurtenance or contents,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and upon conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.
38. The following acts shall be deemed misdemeanors: (1) opening, or suffering or procuring to be opened, or detaining or delaying, or procuring or suffering to be detained or delayed, any correspondence without lawful authority or excuse;
(2) wilfully delivering any correspondence to any person other than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered;
(3) fraudulently obtaining from any person employed by or under the Post Office, or fraudulently detaining, or wilfully secreting, keeping or detaining, any letter bag, or any correspondence which ought to have been delivered to any person; and
(4) fraudulently removing any postage stamp from any correspondence;
and every person who is convicted thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
Misdemeanors.
7 Will. 4 & 1 ss. 25, 31. Vict. c. 36,
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or delaying
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39.-(1) Every person, not being employed by or under the Post Office, who wilfully and maliciously, with intent to injure any other person, either opens or causes to be opened any letter which ought to have been delivered to such other person, or does any act or thing whereby the due delivery of such letter to such other person is prevented or impeded, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to a person who does any act to which this section applies where he is a parent or in the position of a parent or guardian of the person to whom the letter is addressed.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.