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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Post Office Act, 1898 Section 22

Power to postpone despatch or delivery of certain postal articles

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Post Office Act, 1898 Section 22 is part of Post Office Act, 1898 - Power to postpone despatch or delivery of certain postal articles. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) Where the despatch or delivery from a post office of letters would be delayed by the despatch or delivery therefrom at the same time of book, pattern or sample packets and parcels or any of them, such packets or parcels, or any of them, may, subject to such rules as the 3 (a) [a] Substituted for the words 'Governor-General in Council' by A.O., 1937. [Central Government] may make in this behalf, be detained in the Post Office so long as may be necessary.

(2) Where separate parcel posts are established, parcels may be forwarded and conveyed by them, being detained, if necessary, in the Post Office for that purpose.

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What does Post Office Act, 1898 Section 22 provide?

Section Section 22 of the Post Office Act, 1898 (Power to postpone despatch or delivery of certain postal articles) is reproduced on this page as part of the Post Office Act, 1898. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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