Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:2:p139
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 139/169)
Character Range: 1535131–1537817

relation to that finding of guilt.

Receiving stolen property before commencement
 (8) For the purposes of this section:
 (a) it is to be assumed that section 471.1 had been in force at all times before the commencement of this section; and
 (b) property that was appropriated at a time before the commencement of this section does not become stolen property unless the property was appropriated in circumstances that (apart from paragraph (a)) amounted to an offence against a law of the Commonwealth in force at that time.

471.3  Taking or concealing of mail‑receptacles, articles or postal messages
  A person commits an offence if the person dishonestly takes or conceals:
 (a) a mail‑receptacle; or
 (b) an article in the course of post (including an article that appears to have been lost or wrongly delivered by or on behalf of Australia Post or lost in the course of delivery to Australia Post); or
 (c) a postal message.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.

471.4  Dishonest removal of postage stamps or postmarks
  A person commits an offence if the person dishonestly:
 (a) removes any postage stamp affixed to, or printed on, an article; or
 (b) removes any postmark from a postage stamp that has previously been used for postal services.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.

471.5  Dishonest use of previously used, defaced or obliterated stamps
 (1) A person commits an offence if the person dishonestly uses for postal services a postage stamp:
 (a) that has previously been used for postal services; or
 (b) that has been obliterated; or
 (c) that has been defaced.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
 (2) If, in proceedings for an offence against subsection (1), it is proved that the defendant caused an article to or on which was affixed or printed a postage stamp:
 (a) that had previously been used for postal services; or
 (b) that had been obliterated; or
 (c) that had been defaced;
to be carried by post, it is presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the defendant used the stamp for postal services.
 (3) The burden of proof in respect of evidence to the contrary is an evidential burden of proof.

471.6  Damaging or destroying mail‑receptacles, articles or postal messages
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person engages in conduct; and
 (b) the person's conduct causes damage to, or the destruction of:
 (i) a mail‑receptacle; or
 (ii) an article in the course of post (including an article that appears to have been lost or wrongly delivered by or on behalf of Australia Post or lost in the course of delivery to Australia Post); or
 (iii) a postal message; and
 (c) the person:
 (i) intends that his or her conduct cause