Offences

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Whoever —

carries on any business contrary to section 9;

evades any Post Office charge;

sells any postage stamp at a discount otherwise than by virtue of section 14;

evades any customs charge or process in respect of any postal package imported into or exported from the Islands;

steals any postal package;

wilfully obstructs or delays the business of the Post Office or any officer acting in the course of that officer's duty under this Act;

sends through the post any explosive, dangerous, noxious, offensive, libellous or threatening matter;

forges any Post Office stamp, die or document or has in that person's possession any fictitious stamp or anything prepared for the purpose of the production of any fictitious stamp;

places any explosive, dangerous, noxious or offensive substance in, against or adjacent to any property under Post Office control;

has upon any premises or thing under that person's actual or constructive possession or control anything calculated falsely to represent that such premises or thing is under the control of or is authorised by the Post Office;

without Post Office authorisation, affixes any advertisement or other matter or thing to any premises or property under Post Office control or in Post Office possession;

disfigures or obliterates any Post Office notice affixed for the information of the public;

fails to comply with any order or direction given by an officer acting in the course of that officer's duty under this Act;

without lawful excuse, interferes with any postal package coming into that person's hands prior to its receipt by the addressee;

being the master of a vessel —

refuses to receive on board any mail bag tendered to that master under section 20;

fails to account for any mail bag entrusted to that master under section 20;

breaks bulk contrary to section 21;

fails to deliver any postal package contrary to section 21;

fails to comply with section 22; or

unlawfully breaks the seal of or opens any postal package entrusted to that master's care;

being an officer —

wrongfully retains, secretes or delays the delivery or normal processing of any postal package;

unlawfully permits any unauthorised person to be present in or on any part of any premises, vessel or vehicle under the control of the Post Office for the purpose of dealing with or conveying postal packages;

gives information with reference to any offence committed or appearing to have been committed contrary to this Act, in the truth of which that officer does not believe; or

fails to comply with any lawful order or direction of the Postmaster General or any regulation, or

attempts or does anything preparatory to, aids, abets or causes or suffers any person or persons to commit any of the above things is guilty of an offence, but nothing done by the master of a vessel bona fide for the safety of such vessel constitutes an offence.

Postal Act

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