Cap. 254 чл. 62Offences related to the regulation and provision of postal services.

Any person who -

(a) assaults or obstructs or impedes any officer, employee or agent of a postal operator in the exercise of his duties with such an operator;

(b) uses any postal service, and as a result causes any injury or alarm or is likely to cause any injury or alarm;

(c) for the purpose of sending a postal article by post, uses a fictitious stamp or purports to prepay such postal article with any stamp which has been previously used to prepay any other postal article, or which has otherwise been previously used for any other purpose;

(d) without any lawful authority makes use of any seal, instrument or mark used by the Authority or by a postal operator for marking any postage stamp or for affixing any other mark;

(e) places in or against any letter-box provided by a postal operator for the reception of postal articles, any fire or any explosive, dangerous, dirty, noxious or deleterious substance of any fluid, or commits a nuisance in or against any such letter-box, or does anything likely to injure any such letter-box or its appurtenances or contents;

(f) without due authority affixes any placard, advertisement, notice, list, document, board or other thing in or on, or paints, tars or in any way disfigures any post office;

(g) detains, except under the authority of this Act or in obedience to an order by the Authority or by the competent court or tribunal, any postal article in course of transmission by post, or any officer of a postal operator or any vehicle carrying mails bags or postal articles, or on any pretence opens a mail bag in course of transmission by post, or fails to return a postal article to the postal operator as required by the proviso to article 42(d);

(h) maliciously opens or causes to be opened any postal article which ought to have been delivered, or maliciously does any act whereby the due delivery of a postal article, is prevented or delayed, or communicates or makes use of any information obtained from a postal article so opened, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine (multa) of between one thousand euro (€1,000) and twenty-five thousand euro (€25,000), or to imprisonment for a term from one to twelve months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.