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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 63

Title: Penalty for Affixing Without Authority Thing To, or Painting, Tarring or Disfiguring, Post Office or Post Office Letter-box

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever, without due authority, affixes any placard, advertisement, notice, list, document board or other thing in or on, or paints, tars or in any way disfigures any post office or any letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Post Office Act, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

POST OFFICE ACT, 1898 POST OFFICE ACT, 1898 6 OF 1898 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS "The present Post Office Act was enacted in 1866, and has been amended since that date by the addition of three sections only. In 1882 section 60-A was added by Act III of 1882 authorising any officer of the Post Office, empowered in this behalf by the Governor-General in Council, to search for newspapers regarding which a notification has been published under the Sea Customs Act. In 1895, section 66 was added by Act III of that year, providing powers, in accordance with the general policy of the Postal Union for dealing with fictitious or previously used postage stamps of other countries found on letters or other articles received from abroad', and last year a further section was added by Act XVI of 1896 authorising the recovery of customs duty, when paid in advance by the Post Office, in the same manner as postage under the Act. During the last thirty years certain defects and omissions in the Act of 1866 have been brought to light, an experience has shown that express provisions of law, as contained in the Act, in respect of various matters are not suited to the present.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter V

Title: Conditions of Transmission of Postal Articles

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as defined in the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (25 of 1867), edited, printed or published otherwise than inconformity with the rules laid down in this Act; and shall deliver any postal article so detained to such officer as the State Government may appoint in this behalf. (2) Any officer detaining any postal article under the provisions of sub-section (1) shall forthwith send by post to the addressee of such article, notice of the fact of such detention. (3) The State Government shall cause the contents of any postal article detained under sub-section (1) to be examined, and, if it appears to the State Government that the article contained any newspaper, book or other document, of the nature described in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1), may pass such orders as to the disposal of the article and its contents as it may deem proper, and, if it does not so appear, shall release the article and it contents, unless the same be otherwise liable to seizure under any law for the time being in force: Provided that any person interested in any article detained under theprovisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) may, within two months from the date.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter X

Title: Penalties and Procedure

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....shall, on every such subsequent conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. Section 60 - Penalty for breach of rules under section 16 Whoever, being appointed to sell postage stamps,-- (a) takes from any purchaser for any postage stamp or quantity of postage stamps a price higher than that fixed by any rule made under section 16, sub-section (3), clause (a), shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both; or (b) commits a breach of any other rule made under section 16, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. Section 61 - Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20 (1) Whoever, in contravention of the provisions of section 191[orsection 19A] or section 20, sends or tenders or makes over in order to be sent by post any postal article or anything, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with bolh. (2) The detention in the Post Office of any postal article on the ground of its having been sent in contravention of the provisions of section 192[or.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 20

Title: Transmission by Post of Anything Indecent, Etc., Prohibited

State: Central

Year: 1898

No person shall send by post-- (a) any indecent or obscene printing, painting, photograph, lithograph, engraving, book or card, or any other indecent or obscene article, or (b) any postal article having thereon, or on the cover thereof, any words, marks or designs of an indecent, obscene, seditious, scurrilous, threatening or grossly offensive character.

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 27B

Title: Power to Detain Newspapers and Other Articles Being Transmitted by Post

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....detaining any postal article under the provisions of sub-section (1) shall forthwith send by post to the addressee of such article, notice of the fact of such detention. (3) The State Government shall cause the contents of any postal article detained under sub-section (1) to be examined, and, if it appears to the State Government that the article contained any newspaper, book or other document, of the nature described in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1), may pass such orders as to the disposal of the article and its contents as it may deem proper, and, if it does not so appear, shall release the article and it contents, unless the same be otherwise liable to seizure under any law for the time being in force: Provided that any person interested in any article detained under theprovisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) may, within two months from the date of such detention, apply to the State Government for release of the same, and the State Government shall consider such application and pass such orders thereon as it may deem to be proper: Provided also that, if such application is rejected, the applicant may, within two months from the date of the order.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Complete Act

Title: Indian Post Office Act, 1898

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....- 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 Chapter VI 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 -.....

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....(2) of Section 5, for the words 'but subject to any enactment', substitute the words 'but, save as otherwise provided by this Code, subject to any enactment'. [W.B. Act 8 of 1970, Section 3 and Sch., item 2]. (1) All offences under the Indian Penal Code shall be investigated, inquired into, tried and otherwise dealt with according to the provisions hereinafter contained. Trial of offences against other laws (2) All offences under any other law shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise dealt with according to the same provisions, but subject to any enactment for the time being in force regulating the manner or place of investigating, inquiring into, trying or otherwise dealing with such offences. PART 2 CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES: CHAPTER 2: OF THE CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES: SECTION 6: Glasses of Criminal Courts: Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law other than this Code for the time being in force, there shall be five classes of Criminal Courts in [India], namely,- : State Amendments GUJARAT.-In its application to the State of Gujarat the amendment made in Section 6 is the.....