Post Office Act · s 58

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s 58Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles

(1)

Any person who, being an officer of the Department, contrary to his duty —

(a)

opens or causes or suffers to be opened any mail bag or postal article in course of transmission by post; or

(b)

wilfully detains or delays, or causes or suffers to be detained or delayed, any such mail bag or postal article, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine and imprisonment for 2 years.

(2)

Nothing in this section shall extend to the opening, detaining or delaying of any mail bag or postal article under the authority of this Act, 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.