3. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 76, and shall have effect as sections 76A, 76B, and 76C, of the principal enactment: -
| 76A. Whoever without lawful authority (the proof of which authority shall be on the accused) makes the official inscription on any mail bag shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or with a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or with both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| 76B. Whoever, with intent to conceal that any mail bag is the property of the post office, alters, defaces, obliterates or causes to disappear the official inscription on that mail bag shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or with a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or with both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| 76C.
| | (1) Whoever without lawful excuse (the proof of which excuse shall be on the accused) receives, possesses, keeps, sells or delivers any mail bag bearing the official inscription shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or with a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or with both such imprisonment and fine. | | |
| | (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a mail bag shall be deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person if he knowingly has it in the actual possession or keeping of any other person or in any building or place whether occupied by him or not, and whether it is so had for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of another.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts