Post Office Act · s 56

Suggest a correction

Tell us what is wrong in this text. We check every suggestion against the official version before we change anything.

What is wrong?Wrong or mistyped wordsWrong structure or numberingWrong title or detailsText that appears twice

What should change, and whyUp to 2,000 characters.The text as it should read (optional)Edit the text above. Up to 20,000 characters.Where you checked it (optional)A link to the official version, if you have one.

The text as we hold it

Open the official text

s 56Penalty for making false entry in register

Any person who, being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or postal article in the course of transmission by post and required while so employed to keep any register, makes or causes or suffers to be made any false entry in the register with intent to induce the belief that he has visited a place, or delivered a mail bag or postal article, which he has not visited or delivered, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000

and imprisonment for 6 months.

Post Office