Act Text
Preamble1 - Indian Post Office Act, 1898
ChapterI - Preliminary
Section1 - Short Title, Extent, Application and Commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Section3 - Meanings of "in Course of Transmission by Post" and "delivery"
ChapterII - Privilege and Protection of the Government
Section4 - Exclusive Privilege of Conveying Letters Reserved to the Government
Section5 - Certain Persons Expressly Forbidden to Convey Letters
Section6 - Exemption from Liability for Loss, Misdelivery, Delay or Damage
ChapterIII - Postage
Section7 - Power to Fix Rates of Inland Postage
Section8 - Power to Make Rules as to Payment of Postage and Fees in Certain Cases
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
Section13 - Customs Duty Paid by the Post Office to Be Recoverable as Postage
Section14 - Post Office Marks Prima Facie Evidence of Certain Facts Denoted
Section15 - Official Mark to Be Evidence of Amount of Postage
ChapterIV - 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
ChapterV - Conditions of Transmission of Postal Articles
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
Section20 - Transmission by Post of Anything Indecent, Etc., Prohibited
Section21 - Power to Make Rules as to Transmission by Post of Postal Articles
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
Section24A - Power to Deliver Such Articles to Customs Authority
Section25 - Power to Intercept Notified Goods During Transmission by Post
Section26 - Power to Intercept Postal Articles for Public Good
Section27 - Power to Deal with Postal Articles from Abroad Bearing Fictitious or Previously Used Stamps
Section27A - Prohibition of Transmission by Post of Certain Newspapers
Section27B - Power to Detain Newspapers and Other Articles Being Transmitted by Post
Section27C - Procedure for Disposal by High Court of Applications for Release of Newspapers and Articles So Detained
Section27D - Jurisdiction Barred
ChapterVI - Registration, Insurance and Value-payable Post
Section28 - Registration of Postal Articles
Section29 - Power to Make Rules as to Registration
Section30 - Insurance of Postal Articles
Section31 - Power to Require Insurance of Postal Articles
Section32 - Power to Make Rules as to Insurance
Section33 - Liability in Respect of Postal Articles Insured
Section34 - Transmission by Post of Value-payable Postal Articles
Section35 - Power to Make Rules as to Value-payable Postal Articles
Section36 - Power to Give Effect to Arrangements with Other Countries
ChapterVII - Undelivered Postal Articles
Section37 - Power to Make Rules as to Disposal of Undelivered Postal Articles
Section38 - Disposal of Undelivered Postal Articles at Office of Post Master General
Section39 - Final Disposal of Undelivered Postal Articles
ChapterVIII - Ship Letters
Section40 - Duty of Master of Ship, Departing from Any Port in India and Not Being a Mail Ship, to Convey Mail Bags
Section41 - Duty of Master of Ship Arriving at Any Port in India in Respect of Postal Articles and Mail Bags on Board
Section42 - Allowance of Gratuities for Conveyance of Postal Articles by Ships Other Than Mail Ships
ChapterIX - Money Orders
Section43 - Power to Maintain Money Order System and (O 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
Section46 - Power to Give Effect to Arrangements with Other Countries
Section47 - Recovery of Money Order Paid to the Wrong Person
Section48 - Exemption from Liability in Respect of Money Orders
ChapterX - Penalties and Procedure
Section49 - Penalty for Misconduct of Person Employed to Carry or Deliver Mail Bags or Postal Articles
Section50 - Penalty for Voluntary Withdrawal from Duly, Without Permission or Notice, of Person Employed to Carry or Deliver Mail Bags or Postal Articles
Section51 - Penalty for Making False Entry in Register Kept by Person Employed to Carry or Deliver Any Postal Articles
Section52 - Penalty for Theft, Dishonest Misappropriation, Secretion, Destruction, or Throwing Away of Postal Articles
Section53 - Penalty for Opening, Detaining or Delaying Postal Articles
Section54 - Penalty for Fraud in Connection with Official Marks and for Receipt of Excess Postage
Section55 - Penalty for Fraudulently Preparing, Altering Secreting or Destroying Post Office Documents
Section56 - Penalty for Fraudulently Sending Unpaid Postal Articles
Section57 - Punishment of Offences Committed in a Tribal Area, Acceding State or Other Indian State[Repealed]
Section58 - Penalty for Contravention of Section 4
Section59 - Penalty for Contravention of Section 5
Section60 - Penalty for Breach of Rules Under Section 16
Section61 - Penalty for Contravention of Section 19, 19a or 20
Section62 - Penalty for Defiling or Injuring Post Office Letter-boxes
Section63 - Penalty for Affixing Without Authority Thing To, or Painting, Tarring or Disfiguring, Post Office or Post Office Letter-box
Section64 - Penalty for Making False Declaration
Section65 - Penalty for Master of Ship Failing to Comply with the Provisions of Section 40 or 41
Section66 - Penalty for Detention of Letters on Board Vessel Arriving in Port
Section67 - Penalty for Detaining Mails or Opening Mail Bag
Section68 - Penalty for Retaining Postal Articles Wrongly Delivered or Mail Bags
Section69 - Penalty for Unlawfully Diverting Letters
Section70 - Penalty for Abetting or Attempting to Commit, Offences Under Act
Section71 - Property in Cases of Offences to Be Laid in the Post Office
Section72 - Authority for Prosecutions Under Certain Sections of Act
ChapterXI - 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
Section76 - [Repeal]
Section77 - Saving [Repealed]
ScheduleI - First Schedule
ScheduleII - Second Schedule
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