Section 34: Fraudulent manufacture and use of postage stamps

34. Fraudulent manufacture and use of postage stamps (1) No person shall— (a) without lawful authority or excuse, be in possession of any die, plate, instrument or contrivance used for the printing of postage stamps sold or used by a licensee; (b) manufacture or, without lawful excuse, be in possession of any die, plate instrument or contrivance or part of any such die, plate, instrument or contrivance or of any materials, for making any fictitious stamp, or any mark in imitation of, or similar to, or purporting to be any stamp or mark of a licensee; (c) make, knowingly utter, deal in, or sell any fictitious stamp, or knowingly use for any postal purpose any fictitious stamp; (d) without lawful excuse, have in his possession any fictitious stamp; (e) without lawful authority, make on any postage stamp any mark in imitation of or similar to or purporting to be any stamp or mark of a licensee; (f) without lawful authority, stamp, mark, obliterate, print over or in any other way alter the original appearance of, or caused to be stamped marked, obliterated, printed over or in any other way to be altered the original appearance of any unused postage stamp issued by a licensee. (2) Any die, plate, stamp, instrument or contrivance or materials found in the possession of any person in contravention of this section may be seized. (3) Any person who contravenes this section shall commit an offence. (4) For the purposes of this section— “fictitious stamp” means any facsimile, imitation, or representation, whether on paper or otherwise, of any stamp for denoting a rate of postage used or issued by a licensee.