Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act · 1993 Revised Edition · Part V · Offences and Penalties
90. Offences by officer, employee or agent of public postal licensees
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public postal licensee
“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Authority under section 43;
destroys or throws away any postal article in the course of transmission by post or anything contained therein;
postal article
“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post but does not include such article or thing as the Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;
commits theft in respect of or dishonestly misappropriates or secretes any postal article in the course of transmission by post or anything contained therein;
post
“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a public postal licensee;
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;
mail bag
“mail bag” means any bag, container, envelope or covering in which postal articles are conveyed;
issues or causes to be issued a document specified for use in connection with the remittance of money with fraudulent intent;
fraudulently puts any wrong official mark on a postal article;
fraudulently alters, removes or causes to disappear any official mark on a postal article;
being entrusted with the delivery of any postal article, knowingly demands or receives any sum of money which is not chargeable under this Act ;
sends by post, or puts into any mail bag any postal article upon which postage has not been paid or charged intending thereby to defraud the public postal licensee of the postage on the postal article;
postage
“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;
being entrusted with the preparation or custody of any document relating to the public postal licensee, fraudulently prepares the document incorrectly, or alters, or secretes or destroys the document; or
being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or postal article in the course of transmission by post does any act with intent to induce the belief that he has visited a place, or delivered a postal article or mail bag, which he has not visited or delivered,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for —
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
an offence under paragraph (e), (f), (g), (h), (i) or (j) to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.