Postal Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 124 of 1998)Chapter VIII: Offences68. Damage to post office or mail |
| 1) | Any person who sends in or with any postal article or puts into or against any post office any fire, match or light or any explosive or dangerous, filthy, noxious or deleterious matter or thing or any matter or thing which is likely to injure or damage any post office, person or mail is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven years or to both a fine and such imprisonment. |
| 2) | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law, the postal company may cause any article referred to in subsection (1) or any other postal article to be removed at any time by a police official or any person designated by a police official or to be handed over for examination to a police official or such other person and a police official may destroy or render harmless or cause to be destroyed or rendered harmless any such article or postal article which he or she considers to be dangerous or may otherwise dispose thereof. |
| 3) | The postal company may, subject to special precautions determined by it, exempt from the provisions of this section noxious or deleterious matter sent in the interest of public health. |