Singapore legislation

Clause 34

Offences by officer, employee or agent of public postal licensees

Any officer, employee or agent of a public postal licensee who —

(a)

destroys or throws away any postal article in the course of transmission by post or anything contained therein;

(b)

commits theft in respect of or dishonestly misappropriates or secretes any postal article in the course of transmission by post or anything contained therein;

(c)

except in obedience to an order under the hand of the Minister or the direction of a court, wilfully opens or causes to be opened contrary to his duty any mail bag or postal article in the course of transmission by post or wilfully detains or delays or causes to be detained or delayed the mail bag or postal article;

(d)

issues or causes to be issued a document specified for use in connection with the remittance of money with fraudulent intent;

(e)

fraudulently puts any wrong official mark on a postal article;

(f)

fraudulently alters, removes or causes to disappear any official mark on a postal article; or

(g)

being entrusted with the delivery of any postal article, knowingly demands or receives any sum of money which is not chargeable under this Act,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for —

(i)

an offence under paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both; and

(ii)

an offence under paragraph (e), (f) or (g) to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

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