26 shall declare forfeited to the State any equipment or apparatus used for the purpose of or in connection with the offence: Provided that the court shall not make such a declaration if the convicted person satisfies the court that, for reasons which it shall record, there are special reasons in the particular case why the equipment or apparatus concerned should not be forfeited. (4) The proviso to subsection (1) and subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of section 62 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in relation to a declaration in terms of subsection (3). 32 Postal licence (1) In this section⎯ “appropriate successor company” means the successor company or, where more than one successor company is formed, the company licensed in terms of section one hundred and thirteen to provide the postal services carried on by the Corporation immediately before the fixed date. (2) Subject to this section, no person shall operate a postal service except in accordance with a postal licence. (3) Except as otherwise prescribed, a postal licence shall not authorise any person, other than the Corporation or the appropriate successor company, to provide a reserved postal service: Provided that, if the appropriate successor company ceases to exist or to operate a postal service, or if its postal licence is cancelled or suspended, the Authority, after consultation with the Minister, may issue a postal licence to any other person authorising that person to provide the reserved postal service concerned.9 (4) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.10 (5) In addition to any punishment it may impose under subsection (4) and without derogation from its powers under any enactment, a court convicting a person of contravening subsection (2) shall declare forfeited to the State any equipment or apparatus used for the purpose of or in connection with the offence: Provided that the court shall not make such a declaration if the convicted person satisfies the court that, for reasons which it shall record, there are special reasons in the particular case why the equipment or apparatus concerned should not be forfeited. (6) The proviso to subsection (1) and subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of section 62 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in relation to a declaration in terms of subsection (5). 9 Subsection amended by s. 18 of Act 14/2002. 10 Subsection amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001.