A.D. 1900.]
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and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.
33 A.-
33 A
33 C.
Ord. 32/11 §
34.-(1.) The following acts shall be deemed misdemeanors :-
(a.) 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;
(b.) wilfully delivering any correspondence to any person other than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered;
Enumeration of misdemean-ors.
7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 36 s. 25.
(c.) 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
(d.) 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, or making, knowingly uttering, dealing in, selling, or knowingly using for any postal purpose, or having in possession without lawful excuse, any fictitious postage stamp, 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.
(2.) Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanor mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years.
c. 76 s. 7.
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Repeated by Ord.30/5
35.-(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, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, 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 parent or in the position of a parent or guardian of the person to whom the letter is addressed.
(3.) A prosecution shall not be instituted in pursuance of this section except by direction of the Postmaster General.
A.D. 1900.]
POST OFFICE.
[No. 6.
621
and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.
33 a.-
33 A
33 C.
Ord. 32/11 §
34.-(1.) The following acts shall be deemed misdemeanors :-
(a.) 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;
(b.) wilfully delivering any correspondence to any person other than
the person to whom the same ought to be delivered;
Enumeration of misdemean-
ors.
7 Will. 4
& 1 Fict.
c. 36 s. 25.
(c.) fraudulently obtaining from any person employed by or under Ib. s. 31.
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 (d.) fraudulently removing any postage stamp from any correspon- dence, 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, or making, knowingly uttering, dealing 47 & 48_Viet. in, selling, or knowingly using for any postal purpose, or having in possession without lawful excuse, any fictitious postage stamp, 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.
(2.) Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanor mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprison- iment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two
years.
c. 76 s. 7.
7
Repeated by ord.305
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35.-(1.) Every person, not being employed by or under the Punishment Post Office, who wilfully and maliciously, with intent to injure any delaying for opening other person, either opens or causes to be opened any letter which ought letter. 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 pre- vented or impeded, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not ex- ceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, 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 parent or in the position of a parent or guardian of the person to whom the letter is addressed.
(3.) A prosecution shall not be instituted in pursuance of this section except by direction of the Postmaster General.
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