Post Office Act · s 72

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s 72Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag

(1)

Any person who, except under the authority of this Act or any other written law or in obedience to the order in writing of His Majesty the

Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council, the Minister, the Postmaster General or the direction of a competent court —

(a)

detains the mails or any postal article in course of transmission by post; or

(b)

on any pretence opens a mail bag in course of transmission by post,

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is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000.

(2)

Nothing in this section shall prevent the detention of an officer of the Department carrying the mails or any postal article in course of transmission by post on a charge of having committed an offence punishable under the Penal Code (Chapter 22) or any other written law.

(3)

Any mail bag may be detained and opened under the written authority of the Postmaster General.