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Preamble1 - Post Office Act, 1898
Section1 - Short title, extent, application and commencement
Section2 - Definitions In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,
Section3 - Meanings of "in course of transmission by post" and "delivery" For the purposes of this Act,
Chapter2 - : PRIVILEGE AND PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT
Section4 - Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the Government
Section5 - Certain persons expressly forbidden to convey letters Wherever within 3
Section6 - Exemption from liability for loss, misdelivery, delay or damage The 3
Chapter3 - : POSTAGE
Section7 - Power to fix rates of inland postage
Section8 - Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases The 3
Section9 - Power to make rules as to registered newspapers
Section10 - Power to declare rates of foreign postage
Section11 - Liability for payment of postage
Section12 - Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles If any person refuses to pay any postage or other
Section13 - Customs-duty paid by the Post Office to be recoverable as postage When a postal article, on which any duty of customs
Section14 - Post Office marks prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted In every proceeding for the recovery of any postage or
Section15 - Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage The official mark on a postal articles denoting that any postage or
Chapter4 - : POSTAGE STAMPS
Section16 - Provision of postage stamps and power to make rules as to them
Section17 - Postage-stamps to be deemed to be stamps for the purpose of revenue 3
Section18 - Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post
Section19 - Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited
Section19A - Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited 3
Section20 - Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited No person shall send by post
Section21 - Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles 3
Section22 - Power to postpone despatch or delivery of certain postal articles
Section23 - Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act
Section24 - Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty 3
Section24A - Power to deliver such articles to customs authority 3
Section25 - Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post Where a notification has been published under
Section26 - Power to intercept postal articles for public good
Section27 - Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously usedstamps
Section27A - Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers 3
Section27B - Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post 3
Section27C - Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained 3
Section27D - Jurisdiction barred 3
Section28 - Registration of postal articles The sender of a postal article may, subject to the other provisions of this Act, have
Section29 - Power to make rules as to registration
Section30 - Insurance of postal articles The 3
Section31 - Power to require insurance of postal articles The 3
Section32 - Power to make rules as to insurance
Section33 - Liability in respect of postal articles insured Subject to such conditions and restrictions as the 3
Section34 - Transmission by post of value-payable postal articles The 3
Section35 - Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles
Section36 - Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries
Chapter7 - : UNDELIVERED POSTAL ARTICLES
Section37 - Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles
Section38 - Disposal of undelivered postal articles of office of Post Master General
Section39 - Final disposal of undelivered postal articles Undelivered postal articles which cannot be disposed of under the
Chapter8 - : SHIP LETTERS
Section40 - Duty of master of ship, departing from any port in India and not being a mail ship, to convey mail bags The master of
Section41 - Duty of master of ship arriving at any port in India in respect of postal articles andmail bags on board
Section42 - Allowance of gratuities for conveyance of postal articles by ships other than mailships The 3
Chapter9 - : MONEY ORDERS
Section43 - Power to maintain money order system and to make rules as to remittances thereby
Section44 - Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee
Section45 - Power to provide for the issue of postal orders The 3
Section46 - Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries
Section47 - Recovery of money order paid to the wrong person If any person, without reasonable excuse, the burden of proving which
Section48 - Exemption from liability in respect of money orders No suit of other legal proceeding shall be instituted against the 3
Section49 - Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles Whoever, being employed to
Section50 - Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice of personemployed to carry or deliver mail
Section51 - Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver postal articles Whoever, being
Section52 - Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwingaway, of postal articles Whoever,
Section53 - Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office, contrary to
Section54 - Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage Whoever, being an officer of the
Section55 - Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering, secreting or destroying Post Office documents Whoever, being an officer
Section56 - Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office, sends by post, or
Section57 - Punishment of offences committed in a tribal area, Acceding State or other Indian State [Repealed by the Finance Act,
Section58 - Penalty for contravention of section 4
Section59 - Penalty for contravention of section 5
Section60 - Penalty for breach of rules under section 16 Whoever being appointed to sell postage stamps,
Section61 - Penalty for contravention of sections 19 or 20
Section62 - Penalty for defiling or injuring Post Office letter-boxes Whoever places in or against any letter-box provided by the
Section63 - Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or pointing, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office
Section64 - Penalty for making false declaration Whoever, being required by this Act to make a declaration in respect of any postal
Section65 - Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of sections 40 or 41 Whoever, being the master of a
Section66 - Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port
Section67 - Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag Whoever, except under the authority of this Act 3
Section68 - Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags Whoever fraudulently retains, or wilfully secretes
Section69 - Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters Whoever, not being an officer of the Post Office, wilfully and maliciously,
Section70 - Penalty for abetting, or attempting to commit, offences under Act Whoever abets the commission of any offence
Section71 - Property in cases of offences to be laid in the Post Office In every prosecution for an offence in respect of a mail
Section72 - Authority for prosecutions under certain sections of Act No Court shall lake cognizance of an offence punishable under
Chapter11 - : SUPPLEMENTAL
Section73 - Zamindari and other district posts
Section74 - General power to make rules and provisions as to rules under Act
Section75 - Delegation of powers, other than rule-making powers, to Director-General The 3
Section76 - Repeal [Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act
Section77 - Saving [Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1952
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