Postal Services Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Offences and Penalties
39H. Offences in relation to parcels placed in public parcel lockers, etc.
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Subject to subsection (3), a specified person who —
destroys or throws away any parcel placed in a public parcel locker or any thing contained in that parcel;
commits theft in respect of, or dishonestly misappropriates or secretes, any parcel placed in a public parcel locker or any thing contained in that parcel; or
except in obedience to an order of the Minister or the direction of a court or the requirement by the Public Prosecutor under section 20 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, wilfully opens or causes to be opened contrary to the specified person’s duty any public parcel locker or any parcel placed in a public parcel locker,shall be guilty of an offence.
A specified person who intentionally alters, defaces, obliterates or removes any identifying mark on a parcel placed in a public parcel locker shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
parcel
“parcel” means —(a)an article or a thing that is placed in a parcel locker for collection by an intended recipient, a person authorised by the intended recipient or a delivery service provider, as the case may be; or(b)a postal article which is posted at a post office in Singapore as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of this Act or is received at a post office in Singapore by parcel post;
Subsection (1) applies only to parcels which the specified person has access to in the course of the person’s employment as a specified person.
In this section —
“identifying mark”, in relation to a parcel, means any mark on the parcel identifying the intended recipient of the parcel;
“specified person” means any of the following persons:
an officer, employee or agent or a contractor of the public parcel locker network operator;
public parcel locker network operator
“public parcel locker network operator” means a person appointed by the Postal Authority under section 23C(1);
a delivery service provider or an officer, employee or agent or a contractor of a delivery service provider.