Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983
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Prohibition on opening, etc., of postal packets. |
84.—(1) A person who— | |
(a) opens or attempts to open a postal packet addressed to another person or delays or detains any such postal packet or does anything to prevent its due delivery or authorises, suffers or permits another person (who is not the person to whom the postal packet is addressed) to do so, or | ||
(b) discloses the existence or contents of any such postal packet, or | ||
(c) uses for any purpose any information obtained from any such postal packet, or | ||
(d) tampers with any such postal packet, | ||
without the agreement of the person to whom the postal packet is addressed shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any person who is acting— | ||
(a) in virtue of any power conferred on the company by section 83 , or | ||
(b) in pursuance of a direction issued by the Minister under section 110 , or | ||
(c) under other lawful authority. | ||
(3) (a) The company may, with the consent of the Minister, make regulations to carry out the intentions of this section in so far as concerns members of its staff. | ||
(b) The Minister, after consultation with the company, may direct the company to make regulations under paragraph (a) or to amend or revoke regulations made under that paragraph and the company shall comply with that direction. | ||
(c) A person who contravenes any regulation under this subsection shall be guilty of an offence. |