Postal Services Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Offences and Penalties
37. Penalty for sending anything indecent, etc., by post
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Any person who sends by post —
post
“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee;
any indecent or obscene article or any postal article having any words, marks or designs of an indecent, obscene, scurrilous, threatening or grossly offensive character;
postal article
“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post but does not include any article or thing that the Postal Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;
anything which is likely to damage any postal article in the course of transmission by post or any postal equipment or injure any employee or agent of a postal licensee; or
equipment
“equipment” —(a)in relation to a public parcel locker — includes any appliance, apparatus or accessory used or intended to be used with the public parcel locker; or(b)in any other case — includes any appliance, apparatus or accessory used or intended to be used for postal purposes;
except as otherwise provided by any regulations made under this Act, any explosive, inflammable, dangerous, filthy, noxious or deleterious substance, any sharp instrument not properly protected or any living creature which is noxious or likely to damage any postal article in the course of transmission by post or any postal equipment or to injure any employee or agent of a postal licensee,shall be guilty of an offence.
postal licensee
“postal licensee” means a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 6;