Provided that, in the case of a person who sends in or with any postal article any device, substance or fluid
which is designed to cause injury to any person, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
twenty years.
(4) Subsection (3) shall not apply to any noxious or deleterious substance or fluid sent in the interests of
public health in accordance with such conditions as are prescribed, or provided under any law.
(5) Subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall apply in respect of any act which constitutes an offence in terms of the
said sections and is committed outside Zimbabwe by a person who sends the postal article concerned to an address
within Zimbabwe.
85 Offence of unauthorised notice as to reception of letters, etc.
Any person who, not being a postal licensee or without being authorised by the Authority places or maintains
in or on any house, wall, door, window, box, pillar or other place
(a) the words “Post Office” or “Post and Telegraph Office”; or
(b) the words “Letter Box” accompanied with a word, letter or mark that signifies or implies or is likely to
signify or imply that it is a post box; or
(c) any word or letter that signifies or implies or is likely to signify or imply that any house or place is a post
office or that any box is a post box;
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
[Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
86 Trespass in or upon post offices or telephone exchanges
(1) Any person, other than an employee of the licensee concerned, who
(a) without the permission of the licensee who controls the premises, or of an employee of the licensee with
authority to give such permission, enters
(i) any part of a post office that is not open to the public; or
(ii) any premises on which there is a telephone exchange worked by a telecommunication licensee;
or
(b) behaves in a disorderly manner
(i) in a post office; or
(ii) in any premises on which there is a telephone exchange worked by a telecommunication
licensee;
or
(c) wilfully obstructs, hinders or delays any employee of a licensee in the execution of his duty;
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
[Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
(2) Any person contravening paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) who, on being required so to do by a
person employed by the licensee concerned, fails to leave the post office or telephone exchange immediately may
be removed by an employee of the licensee, and any police officer shall, on being so requested by such an
employee, remove or assist in removing any such person.
87 False entries relating to mail and fraudulent use of official mark
(1) Any employee of a postal licensee who is required to keep a record relating to mail and who fails to keep
such record or makes a false entry in such record or erases or alters any entry in such record shall be guilty of an
offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or
to both such fine and such imprisonment.
[Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
(2) Any employee of a postal licensee who, with intent to defraud, puts any incorrect official mark on a
postal article 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]
88 Offensive or false telephone messages
Any person who
(a) sends by telephone any message that is grossly offensive or is of an indecent, obscene or threatening
character; or
(b) sends by telephone any message that he knows to be false for the purpose of causing annoyance,
inconvenience or needless anxiety to any other person; or
(c) makes any telephone call or series or combination of telephone calls without reasonable cause for the
purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
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