POST OFFICE.
No. 7 of 1926.
1679
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of which a police officer may search for and seize any articles not delivered as required by this section, in like manner as if they were stolen goods and the warrant were a warrant to search for stolen goods.
delivered at
claimed.
25.-(1) If any postal packet addressed to any person at any hotel, boarding-house or shipping office, and delivered at such hotel, boarding-house or shipping office, is not claimed by or forwarded to the addressee within the respective periods specified in sub-section (2), the person in charge of such hotel, boarding-house or shipping office shall forthwith return the postal packet to the Postmaster General, and the postal packet shall thereupon be treated as a postal packet which has been returned to the Post Office from inability to find the person to whom it is addressed.
(2) The respective times referred to in sub-section (1) shall be two weeks in the case of a postal packet posted in the Colony and two months in the case of a postal packet posted in any place outside the Colony: Provided that the Postmaster General may from time to time extend either of these periods as he may think fit in any particular case.
26. No person shall-
Stealing, etc., of
packets and
(a) steal or embezzle or obtain by false pretences or by any other fraudulent means, or destroy, any mail bag or postal packet or anything contained in or forming part of any mail bag or postal packet;
(b) steal or embezzle or obtain by false pretences or by any other fraudulent means any letter or anything contained in or forming part of any letter, whether such letter is in course of transmission by post or not;
(c) receive any postal packet or anything which was contained in or formed part of any postal packet, or any letter or anything which was contained in or formed part of any letter, which was stolen, embezzled or obtained by false pretences or by any other fraudulent means, knowing that such postal packet or letter or thing was stolen, embezzled or obtained by false pretences or other fraudulent means, as the case may be.
*
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
8 Edw. 7, c. 48, ss. 50, 52, 55.
POST OFFICE.
No. 7 of 1926.
1679
,
of which a police officer may search for and seize any articles. not delivered as required by this section, in like manner as if they were stolen goods and the warrant were a warrant to search for stolen goods.
delivered at
claimed.
25.-(1) If any postal packet addressed to any person at Postal any hotel, boarding-house or shipping office, and delivered at packets such hotel, boarding-house or shipping office, is not claimed hotels, etc., by or forwarded to the addressee within the respective periods and not specified in sub-section (2), the person in charge of such hotel, boarding-house or shipping office shall forthwith return the postal packet to the Postmaster General, and the postal packet shall thereupon be treated as a postal packet which has been returned to the Post Office from inability to find the person to whom it is addressed.
(2) The respective times referred to in sub-section (1) shall be two weeks in the case of a postal packet posted in the Colony and two months in the case of a postal packet posted in any place outside the Colony: Provided that the Postmaster General may from time to time extend either of these periods as he may think fit in any particular case.
26. No person shall-
Stealing, etc., of
packets and
(a) steal or embezzle or obtain by false pretences or by postal any other fraudulent means, or destroy, any mail bag or postal letters. packet or anything contained in or forming part of any mail bag or postal packet;
(b) steal or embezzle or obtain by false pretences or by any other fraudulent means any letter or anything contained in or forming part of any letter, whether such letter is in course of transmission by post or not;
(c) receive any postal packet or anything which was con- tained in or formed part of any postal packet, or any letter or anything which was contained in or formed part of any leiter, which was stolen, embezzled or obtained by false pretences or by any other fraudulent means, knowing that such postal packet or letter or thing was stolen, embezzled or obtained by false pretences or other fraudulent means, as the case may be. *
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
8 Edw. 7, c. 48, ss. 50, 52, 55.
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