Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Offences and Penalties
37. Fraudulent retention of postal article
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who —
except in accordance with this Act or unless authorised by the
Authority, wilfully retains or secretes or makes away with or keeps or detains or, when required by an employee of a public postal licensee, neglects or refuses to deliver up in the course of transmission by post any postal article or any mail bag containing any postal article; or
except in accordance with this Act or unless authorised by the
Authority, wilfully opens or causes to be opened any postal article which ought to have been delivered, or does any act whereby the due delivery of a postal article to any person is prevented or impeded, is guilty of an offence.
Nothing in subsection (1)(b) shall apply to a person who does any act to which that subsection applies where he is a parent, or in the position of a parent or guardian, of the person to whom the postal article is addressed and the addressee is a minor or his ward.
postal article
“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;
Terms defined in s 2
addressee
Defined · s 2“addressee”, in relation to a postal article, means the person to whom the communication is addressed;
Authority
Defined · s 2“Authority” means the Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam established by section 3 of the Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam Order, 2001;
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;
post
Defined · s 2“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee;
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;
public postal licensee
Defined · s 2“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Authority under section 9;
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