Repealed2018 Revised EditionCurrent version · 2018 Revised EditionSee versions on Attorney General's Chambers(opens the publisher’s site)
Post Office Act · 2018 Revised Edition · Part 12
Post Office Act · 2018 Revised Edition · Part 12
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who —
conveys, otherwise than by post, any letter within the exclusive privilege conferred on the Postmaster General by section 5;
performs any service incidental to conveying otherwise than by post any letter within such exclusive privilege;
sends or tenders or delivers in order to be sent otherwise than by post any letter within such exclusive privilege;
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makes a collection of letters excepted from such exclusive privilege for the purpose of sending them otherwise than by post; or
collects, carries, tenders, delivers or receives any letters in contravention of section 5(3), is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $50 for every such letter.
Any person who, having already been convicted of an offence under this section, is again convicted thereunder shall, on every such subsequent conviction, be liable to a fine of $100 for every such letter, or, if the letters are less than ten, to a fine of $1,000.
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