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Post Office Act · s 57

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s 57Penalty for theft etc. of postal articles

Any person who, being an officer of the Department, commits theft in respect of, or dishonestly misappropriates or for any purpose whatsoever secretes, destroys, or throws away, any postal article in course of transmission by post or anything contained therein, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine and imprisonment for 7 years.