Post Office Act · s 73

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s 73Penalty for retaining mail bags not delivered or postal articles

Any person who —

(a)

fraudulently retains;

(b)

wilfully secretes;

(c)

makes away with or keeps or detains; or

(d)

when required by an officer of the Department, neglects or refuses to deliver up, any postal article in course of transmission by post which ought to have been delivered to any other person, or a mail bag containing a postal article, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine and imprisonment for 2

years.