Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Offences and Penalties
35. Offences by officer, employee or agent of postal licensees
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any officer, employee or agent of a postal licensee who —
postal licensee
“postal licensee” means a person to whom a postal licence has been granted under section 8;
destroys or throws away any postal article or anything contained therein;
commits theft in respect of or dishonestly misappropriates or secretes any postal article or anything contained therein;
except in obedience to an order under the hand of the
Minister or the direction of a court, wilfully opens or causes to be opened contrary to his duty any mail bag or postal article, or wilfully detains or delays or causes to be detained or delayed the mail bag or postal article; or
issues or causes to be issued a document specified for use in connection with the remittance of money with fraudulent intent, is guilty of an offence.
Any officer, employee or agent of a postal licensee who —
fraudulently puts any wrong official mark on a postal article;
fraudulently alters, removes or causes to disappear any official mark on a postal article; or
being entrusted with the delivery of any postal article, knowingly demands or receives any sum of money which is not chargeable under this Act, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both.
Postal Services
Subsection (1) applies only to postal articles which an officer, employee or agent of a postal licensee has access to in the course of his employment as an officer, employee or agent of the postal licensee.
Terms defined in s 2
mail bag
Defined · s 2“mail bag” means any form of container or covering in which postal articles in the course of transmission by post are enclosed by a licensee in Brunei Darussalam or a foreign postal administration for the purpose of conveyance by post, whether or not it contains any such articles;
postal article
Defined · s 2“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post, but does not include such article or thing as the Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;
postal licensee
Defined · s 2“postal licensee” means a person to whom a postal licence has been granted under section 8;
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