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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Post Office Act, 1898 Section 37

Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles

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Post Office Act, 1898 Section 37 is part of Post Office Act, 1898 - Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) The 3 (a) [a] Substituted for the words "Governor-General in Council" by A.O., 1937. [Central Government] may make rules as to the disposal of postal articles which for any reason cannot be delivered (hereinafter referred to as "undelivered postal articles").

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may- . , (a) prescribe the period during which undelivered postal articles at a post office shall remain in that office; and (b) provide for the publication of lists of undelivered postal articles, or of any class of undelivered postal articles.

(3) Every undelivered postal article, after being detained at a post office for the period prescribed by rule under the foregoing provisions of this section, shall be either forwarded, free of further charge, to the post office at which it was posted, for return to the sender, or sent to the office of the Post Master General.

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What does Post Office Act, 1898 Section 37 provide?

Section Section 37 of the Post Office Act, 1898 (Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered 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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