(g) without due authority or otherwise than in the course of his duties, date-stamps or otherwise marks any letter, postcard, printed paper, newspaper, pattern, sample, parcel or other article so as to indicate that such article is in the course of transmission by post or has been received by a post office for transmission; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001] (2) Subject to subsection (3), any person who (a) makes any false statement as to the contents of any postal article; or (b) wilfully detains or keeps any mail or postal article that ought to have been delivered to another person; or (c) by any false representation, induces any employee of a postal licensee to deliver to him or to any other person any postal article not addressed to or intended for him or such other person; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001] 83 Theft of and tampering with mail Any person who (a) steals any mail; or (b) steals from any post office or from the custody or possession of any employee of a postal licensee or person conveying mail any postal article or any of the contents of a postal article; or (c) unlawfully destroys any postal article or any of the contents of a postal article; or (d) receives any mail or postal article or any of the contents of a postal article knowing it to have been stolen; or (e) stops any vehicle, train or vessel with intent to steal or unlawfully to search the mail; or (f) unlawfully opens or tampers with or secretes any postal article; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level eleven or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001] 84 Restricted and prohibited postal articles and transmission of dangerous substances (1) Any person who sends by post (a) any indecent or obscene article; or (b) any postal article having thereon, therein or on the cover thereof any thing, word, mark or design of an indecent, obscene, seditious, scurrilous, threatening or grossly offensive character; or (c) any postal article bearing a fictitious postage stamp or purporting to be prepaid with a postage stamp that has been previously used; or (d) correspondence dealing with a fraudulent or immoral business or undertaking; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001] (2) Any person who, otherwise than as may be prescribed or under any law, sends by post (a) any drug to which Part II, IV or VI of the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] applies; or (b) any medicine which is specified in a statutory instrument in terms of subsection (1) of section 41 of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act [Chapter 15:03]; or (c) any substance which is declared to be a Group 1 hazardous substance in terms of subsection (1) of section 15 of the Hazardous Substances and Articles Act [Chapter 15:05]; or (d) any sharp instrument which is not adequately protected; or (e) any noxious living creature; or (f) any creature, article or thing whatsoever that is likely to injure postal articles or an employee of a postal licensee; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level eleven or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001] (3) Subject to subsection (4), any person who (a) sends in or with any postal article; or (b) puts into or against any post office; any fire, match or light or any explosive, inflammable, dangerous, noxious or deleterious substance or fluid shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven years: 31