1800
Opening correspondence and other misdemeanors
Receiving stolen correspondence.
Allegations to be used in proceedings.
Penalties may be recovered in a summary way within one year.
Repeal.
Suspending clause.
ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1884.
Post Office.
Every person who is convicted of any felony mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
28. Every person employed by or under the Post Office, who, without lawful authority or excuse, opens, or suffers or procures to be opened any correspondence; or who, without lawful authority or excuse, detains or delays, or procures or suffers to be detained or delayed any correspondence; or who wilfully delivers any correspondence to any person other than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who fraudulently obtains from any person employed by or under the Post Office, or fraudulently detains, or wilfully secretes, keeps, or detains, any letter bag, or any correspondence which ought to have been delivered to any other person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who fraudulently removes any postage stamp from any correspondence, or wilfully removes from any postage stamp any mark that has been made thereon at any Post Office, or knowingly uses or puts off any postage stamp from which any such mark has been removed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanor mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
29. The sections of the Larceny Ordinance (No. 7 of 1865) relating to receiving stolen goods, that is to say, sections 75 to 82 both inclusive, shall apply to felonies and misdemeanors committed under this Ordinance; and for that purpose, the expression "this Ordinance", when used in the said sections, shall be taken to include the present Ordinance.
30. In any proceedings against any person for any offence committed against this Ordinance, in respect of any letter bag or correspondence, it shall be sufficient to allege such letter bag or correspondence to be the property of the Postmaster General, without mentioning his name, and in any such proceedings against any person employed by or under the Post Office, it shall be sufficient to allege that such person was employed by or under the Post Office, without stating further the nature or particulars of his employment.
31. All pecuniary penalties for offences against this Ordinance may be recovered in a summary way before a Magistrate, but proceedings for the recovery of such penalties shall be commenced within one year after the offence was committed.
32. Ordinance No. 10 of 1876 is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done or commenced to be done thereunder.
33. This Ordinance shall take effect on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
1800
Opening corte- spondence aud other misde-
meanors
Receiving stolen corre- spondence.
Allegations to.
be used in proceedings
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for
Penalties may
be recovered fa
4 summary way within one year.
Repeal.
Surpending clause.
ORDINANCE No. 12 or 1884.
Post Office.
Every person who is convicted of any felony mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour,
28. Every person employed by or under the Post Office, who, without lawful authority or excuse, opens, or suffers or procures to be opened any correspondence; or who, without lawful authority or excuse, detains or delays, or procures or suffers to be detained or delayed any correspondence; or who wilfully delivers any correspondence to any person other than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who fraudulently obtains from any person employed by or under the Post Office, or fraudulently detains, or wilfully secretes, keeps, or detains, any letter bag, or any correspondence which ought to have been delivered to any other person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who fraudulently removes any postage stamp from any correspondence, or wilfully removes from any postage stamp any mark that has been made thereon at any Post Office, or knowingly uses or puts off any postage stamp from which any such mark has been removed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanor mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
29. The sections of the Larceny Ordinance (No. 7 of 1865) relating to receiving stolen goods, that is to say, sections 75 to 82 both inclusive, shall apply to felonies and misdemeanors committed under this Ordinance; and for that purpose, the expression this Ordinance, when used in the said sections, shall be taken to include the present Ordinance.
30. In any proceedings against any person for any offence committed against this Ordinance, in respect of any letter bag or correspondence, it shall be sufficient to allege such letter bag or correspondence to be the property of the Postmaster General, without mentioning his name, and in any such proceedings against any person employed by or under the Post Office, it shall be sufficient to allege that such person was employed by or under the Post Office, without stating further the nature or particulars of his employment.
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31. All pecuniary penalties for offences against this Ordinance may be recovered. in a summary way before a Magistrate, but proceedings for the recovery of such penal- ties shall be commenced within one year after the offence was committed.
32. Ordinance No. 10 of 1876 is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done or commenced to be done thereunder.
33. This Ordinance shall take effect on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
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