Post Office Act · s 65

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s 65Penalty for contravention of section 21 or 22

(1)

Any person who, in contravention of the provisions of section 21 or 22, sends or tenders or makes over in order to be sent by post any postal article or other thing, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine and imprisonment for one year.

(2)

The detention in the Department of any postal article on the ground of its having been sent in contravention of the provisions of section 21 or 22 shall not exempt the sender from any proceedings which might have been taken if the postal article had been delivered in due course of post.

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