Postal Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 124 of 1998)Chapter VIII : Offences67. Illegal practices in connection with postal articles and premises |
Any person who–
| a) | without due authority places or paints anything whatsoever upon or wilfully injures, disfigures or tampers with any post office or any card, notice or other property of or used by or on behalf of the postal company or commits a nuisance on or against any post office or against or upon any such card, notice or property; |
| b) | detains, secretes or keeps any mail or postal article which ought to have been delivered to another person or which has been found by himself or herself or by any other person; or |
| c) | by false pretence or misstatement induces any employee of the postal company to deliver to him or her or to any other person any postal article not addressed to or intended for either of them, |
is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both a fine and such imprisonment, without prejudice to any right the postal company may have of proceeding civilly against any person convicted under paragraph (a) for compensation for such damage as may have been caused by him or her.