The Post Office Act, 1898

( ACT NO. VI OF 1898 )

Offences by Officers of the Post Office

49. Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles.

50. Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles.

51. Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver postal articles.

52. Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away, of postal articles.

53. Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles.

54. Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage.

55. Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering, secreting or destroying Post Office documents.

56. Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles.

57. [Omitted]

Other Offences

58. Penalty for contravention of section 4 and 4B.

59. Penalty for contravention of section 5.

60. Penalty for breach of rules under section 16.

61. Penalty for contravention of section 19 or 20.

62. Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes.

63. Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box.

64.Penalty for making false declaration

65. Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41.

66. Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port.

67. Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag.

68. Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags.

69. Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters.

General

70. Penalty for abetting, or attempting to commit, offences under Act.

71. Property in cases of offences to be laid in the Post Office.

72. Authority for prosecutions under certain sections of Act.

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