251 Post Office

• Author: Ralph Hone
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[CIHI.251. 2889CHAPTER 251.

POST OFFICE.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2. INTERPRETATION.

   Duties of Postage.

3. POSTAL PACKET SUBJECT TO CHARGE.

4. POWER OF GOVERNOR TO FIx RATES OF POSTAGE.

5. PAYMENT OF POSTAGE BY ADDRESSEE OR SENDER.

6. RECOVERY OF POSTAGE.

7. POST OFFICE MARK EVIDENCE OF REFUSAL, ETC.

8. OFFICIAL MARK TO BE EVIDENCE OF AMOUNT OF POSTAGE.

9. PROVISION FOR STAMPS.

   Conditions of Transit of Postal Packets.

10. RULES AS TO POSTAL PACKETS.

11. LIABILITY FOR LOSS OF POSTAL PACKETS.

12. RULES FOR PREVENTING SENDINrG BY POST INDECENT ARTICLES, ETC.

13. DEALING WITH POSTAL PACKETS NOT SENT IN CONFORMITY WITH ACT.

14. POSTAL PACKETS WITH CONTRABAND GOODS.

15. DECISIONS AS TO POSTAL PACKETS.

16. GOVERNOR TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN MONEY ORDER SYSTEM.

    British Postal Orders.

17. BRITISH POSTAL ORDERS.

18. Loss ON FORGED ORDERS.

    Postal Union.

19. GOVERNOR TO ARRANGE CONTINUANCE OF COLONY IN POSTAL UNION.

20. GOVERNOR TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN AND TO EXTEND PARCEL POST.

21. Loss ON PARCELS.

    Ship Letters.

22. DUTIES OF MASTERS OF OUTWARD BOUND VESSELS AS RESPECTS MAIL BAGS.

23. DuTIEs OF MASTERS OF INWARD BOUND VESSELS AS RESPECTS POSTAL PACKETS.

24. PENALTY FOR MASTER OF VESSEL OPENING MAIL BAG.

    SECTION 25. DUTIES OF OFFICERS OF CUSTOMS AS TO DELIVERY OF LETTERS BY MASTERS OF VESSELS.

26. SHIPOwNERS' LETTERS.

27. GRATUITIES TO MASTERS OF VESSELS.

28. RETENTION OF SHIP LETTERS AFTER DELIVERY OF LETTERS TO POST OFFICE.

    Legal Proceedings.

29. PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES IN RELATION TO POSTAL ORDERS, AND THE POUNDAGE THEREON.

30. PROVISIONS AS TO FORM OF PROCEEDINGS.

31. EVIDENCE OF ARTICLE BEING POSTAL PACKET.

32. POWER TO COMPOUND ACTIONS.

33. SAVING CLAUSE AS TO LIABILITY.

34. APPLICATION OF FINES.

    Construction.

35. MEANING OF 'IN COURSE OF TRANSMISSION BY POST' AND 'DELIVERY TO OR FROM A POST.' Postmaster and Officers.

36. ATTENDANCE OF OFFICERS.

37. OUT ISLAND POSTAL PACKETS.

38. DISTRICT POSTMASTERS TO BE APPOINTED.

    Branch Post Offices.

39. POWER TO ESTABLISH BRANCH OFFICES, ETC.

40. ATTENDANCE OF OFFICERS.

41. OFFICERS UNDER POSTMASTER.

42. FORWARDING OF POSTAL PACKETS.

43. DUTIES OF OFFICER IN CHARGE OF BRANCH POST OFFICE.

44. BRANCH POST OFFICE TO BE PART OF POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

    General.

45. RULES.

46. EXPENSES TO BE DEFRAYED OUT OF POST OFFICE REVENUE.

    SCHEDULE.

    DECLARATIO& BY MASTER OF VESSEL.

    CHAPTER 251.

    POST OFFICE.

    16 of 1914.

    AN ACT RELATING TO THE POST OFFICE. 5 of 1917.

    32 of 1925.

    2 of 1939.

    [21st March 1914.] 7 of 1952.

    43 of 1964.

1. This Act may be cited as The Post Office Short title.

   Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise Interpretation.

   requires'mail' includes every conveyance by which postal packets are carried, whether it be a carriage, cart, dray, horse or any other conveyance, and also a person employed in conveying or delivering postal packets, and also any vessel or boat employed by or under the post office for the transmission of postal packets by contract or otherwise in respect of postal packets transmitted by the vessel or boat;

   'mail bag' includes a bag, box, parcel or any other envelope or covering in which postal packets in course of transmission by post are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain any such packets;

   'officer of the post office' includes the Postmaster, and any person employed in any business of the post office, whether employed by the Postmaster, or by any person under him or on behalf of the post office;

   'postage' means the duty chargeable for the transmission of postal packets;

   'post office' includes any house, building, room, carriage or place used for the purpose of the post office, and any post office letter box;

   'postal packet' means a letter, post card, reply post card, newspaper, book packet, pattern or sample packet, or parcel and every packet or article transmissible by post;

   'prohibited article' means any postal packet containing or bearing any fictitious postage POST OFFICE.

   stamp, that is to say, any facsimile or imitation or representation of any stamp for denoting any rate or duty of postage, including any stamp for denoting a rate or duty of postage of the United Kingdom, of the Colony, or any 43 of 1964, country of the Commonwealth, or of any Third Schd. foreign country; or purporting to be prepaid with any postage stamp which has been previously used to prepay any other postal packet, or any other revenue duty or tax;

   'rules' means the rules made under this Act.

   Duties of Postage.

   Postal packet 3. Subject to the provisions of this Act, there subject to jcharge shall be charged, raised, levied and collected by the Postmaster and paid unto Her Majesty the Queen for the use and support of the Colony on all postal packets which are conveyed or delivered for conveyance by post under the authority of the Postmaster such postage and other sums as may be fixed in manner provided by this Act.

   Power of 4. The Governor may, by Order, fix the rates of Governor to fix rates of postage and other sums to be charged in respect of postage., postal packets under this Act, and regulate the scale of weights and the circumstances according to which those rates, and sums are to be charged.

   Payment of 5.-(1) Where the postage or any other sum postage by postagddressee orby chargeable on any postal packet is not prepaid by the sender, sender or is insufficiently prepaid, the postage or sum, or the deficiency, as the case may be, shall be paid by the person to whom the postal packet is addressed (in this Act styled the addressee) on the delivery thereof to him; or, if the postal packet is refused, or the addressee is dead or cannot be found, by the sender.

   (2) Where the postage or any other sum chargeable on a postal packet has not been prepaid or has been insufficiently prepaid by the sender, and the addressee on receiving the packet and paying the postage or other sum, or the deficiency, as the case may be, desires to reject it, and to compel the sender thereof to pay the postage or other sum, or the deficiency, as the case may be, the Postmaster on the application of the addressee, and subject to the rules, may charge the postage or other sum, or deficiency, as the case may be,

   [CIH.251. 2893 to the sender, with the additional postage of returning the packet to him, and in every such case the sender of the postal packet shall pay the postage or other sum chargeable on sending the packet, or the deficiency, as the case may be, and also the postage of returning the packet, and on the payment thereof by the sender the amount paid in respect of postage by the addressee shall be repaid to him by the Postmaster.

   (3) Nothing in this section shall release the addressee from his liability to pay the postage or other sum chargeable on a packet or any deficiency thereon on the delivery thereof to him.

6. All postage and other sums payable under this Act in respect of postal packets may be recovered in like manner as any duties granted to Her Majesty by any Act relating to Her Majesty's revenue are recoverable by law.

7. In any proceeding for the recovery of -postage or other sums in respect of postal packets-(a) the production of any postal packet in respect of which any such postage or sum is sought to be recovered, having thereupon a post office...