Offences by employee or agent of Corporation
71.  Any employee or agent of the Corporation who —
(a)wilfully secretes, makes away with or alters any message or record of any message;
(b)except in obedience to an order of the Minister or an employee specially authorised by him to make the order, wilfully omits to transmit or intercepts or acquaints himself with or detains any message or part thereof or deliberately causes a call or connection to be disconnected or not to be connected;
(c)destroys or throws away any postal article in the course of transmission by post or anything contained therein;
(d)commits theft in respect of or dishonestly misappropriates or secretes any postal article in the course of transmission by post or anything contained therein;
(e)except in obedience to an order of the Minister or the chief executive or the direction of a court, wilfully opens or causes to be opened contrary to his duty any mail bag or postal article in the course of transmission by post or wilfully detains or delays or causes to be detained or delayed the mail bag or postal article;
(f)issues a document prescribed for use in connection with the remittance of money with fraudulent intent;
(g)fraudulently puts any wrong official mark on a postal article;
(h)fraudulently alters, removes or causes to disappear any official mark on a postal article;
(i)being entrusted with the delivery of any postal article, knowingly demands or receives any sum of money which is not chargeable under this Act;
(j)sends by post, or puts into any mail bag any postal article upon which postage has not been paid or charged intending thereby to defraud the Corporation of the postage on the postal article;
(k)being entrusted with the preparation or custody of any document relating to the Corporation, fraudulently prepares the document incorrectly, or alters, or secretes or destroys the document; or
(l)being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or postal article in the course of transmission by post and required while so employed to keep any register, makes or causes to be made any false entry in the register with intent to induce the belief that he has visited a place, or delivered a postal article or mail bag, which he has not visited or delivered,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction for —
(i)an offence under paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both; and
(ii)an offence under paragraph (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) or (l) to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.