2082
Opening correspondence and other misdemeanours.
ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1887.
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. The following acts shall be deemed misdemeanours:-
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; or wilfully delivering any correspondence to any person other than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered.
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.
Fraudulently removing any postage stamp from any correspondence, or wilfully removing from any postage stamp any mark that has been made thereon at any Post Office, or knowingly using or putting off any postage stamp from which any such mark has been removed, making, knowingly uttering, dealing in, selling, knowingly using for any postal purpose, or having in possession without lawful excuse any fictitious postage stamp, [not being a postage stamp issued under this Ordinance, Repealed by Ordinance No. 22 of 1889,] or making, or having in possession without lawful excuse any die, plate, instrument or materials for making any such fictitious postage stamp. Any such stamp, die, plate, instrument, or materials found in the possession of any person in contravention of this section may be seized and shall be forfeited.
Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanour 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.
2082
Opening cor- respondence and other mis- demeanours.
ORDINANCE No. 1 or 1887.
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. The following acts shall be deemed misdemeanours:-
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; or wilfully delivering any correspondence to any person other than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered.
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.
Fraudulently removing any postage stamp from any correspond- ence, or wilfully removing from any postage stamp any mark that has been made thereon at any Post Office, or knowingly using or putting off any postage stamp from which any such mark has been removed, making, knowingly uttering, dealing in, selling, knowingly using for any postal purpose, or having in possession without lawful excuse any fictitious postage stamp, [not being a postage stamp issued under this Ordinance, Repealed by Ordinance No. 22 of 1889,] or making, or having in possession without lawful excuse any die, plate, instrument or mate- rials for making any such fictitious postage stamp. Any such stamp, die, plate, instrument, or materials found in the possession of any person in contravention of this. section may be seized and shall be forfeited.
Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanour 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.
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