Post Office Act · s 87

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s 87Prohibition of false notice as to reception of letters

Any person who, without authority from the Postmaster General, places or maintains in or on any house, wall, door, window, box, post, pillar, or other place, belonging to him or under his control, any of the following words, letters or marks —

(a)

the words “post office” or “Postal officer”; or

(b)

the words “letter box”, accompanied with words, letters or marks which signify or imply or may reasonably lead the public to believe that any house or place is a post office, or that any box is a letter box within the meaning of this Act, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $200, and, if the offence is continued after a previous conviction, a fine of $50 for every day during which the offence so continues.