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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Post Office Act, 1898 Section 66

Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port

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Post Office Act, 1898 Section 66 is part of Post Office Act, 1898 - Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) Whoever, being either the master of a ship arriving at any port in 3 (a) [a] Substituted for the words "the States" by the Finance Act, 1950 (25 of 1950), S. 11 and Sch. IV (1-4-1950). [India] or any one on board, knowingly has in his baggage or in his possession or custody, after the postal articles on board or any of them have been sent to the post office at the port of arrival, any postal article within the exclusive privilege conferred on the Central Government by (section 4) , shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every such postal article as aforesaid, (2) Whoever, being such master or other person as aforesaid, detains any such postal article as aforesaid after demand made for it by an officer of the Post Office, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every such postal article.

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What does Post Office Act, 1898 Section 66 provide?

Section Section 66 of the Post Office Act, 1898 (Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port) 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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