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Postal Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 124 of 1998)

Chapter VIII : Offences

78. Evidence in criminal proceedings

 

In any information or complaint as to or any prosecution for any crime or any offence committed in respect of the postal company or of any mail, telegram or any property, money, money order, postal order or other document authorised to be used for the purpose of remitting, paying or depositing money through or with the postal company, as the case may be or with respect to any act, deed, matter or thing which has been done or committed with any malicious, injurious or fraudulent intent relating to or concerning the postal company, mail, telegram, property, money, money order, postal order or other document, it is sufficient--

a) to allege that any such mail, telegram, property, money, money order, postal order or other document belongs to or is in the lawful possession of the postal company and to put in the same as an exhibit and it is not necessary to allege or prove the same to be of any value;
b) to allege that any such act, deed, matter or thing was done or committed with intent to injure or defraud the postal company, without setting forth its or any other name, addition or description whatsoever; and
c) if the offender was an employee of the postal company, to allege that the offender was an officer at the time of committing of the offence without stating the nature or particulars of his or her employment.