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POSTAL SERVICES ACT 1975 No. 54, 1975 - SECT 92

Stealing postal articles.
92. (1) A person shall not-

   (a)  with intent to defraud, take from the possession of an officer or
        employee of the Commission, a contractor to the Commission or an
        officer or employee of such a contractor;

   (b)  with intent to defraud, take from any place appointed by the
        Commission for the receipt or delivery of postal articles; or

   (c)  steal, fraudulently misappropriate, convert to his own use, secrete or
        destroy, any mail, any postal article in the course of the post or any
        part of such a postal article.

(2) A person shall not receive any mail, any postal article sent by post or
any part of such an article knowing that the mail, the article, or the part of
the article, as the case may be, had been fraudulently taken, stolen,
misappropriated or secreted.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years. 


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