Post Office Act · s 59

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s 59Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of unauthorised payments

Any person who, being an officer of the Department —

(a)

fraudulently puts any wrong official mark on a postal article;

(b)

fraudulently alters, removes, or causes to disappear, any official mark which is on a postal article; or

(c)

being entrusted with the delivery of any postal article, knowingly demands or receives any sum of money which is not chargeable under this Act,

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is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine and imprisonment for 2 years.