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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 -.....
List Judgments citing this sectionPost Office Cash Certificates Act, 1917 Section 3
Title: Payment on Death of Holder of Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate
State: Central
Year: 1917
.....Savings Bank and the sum for the time being due on such certificate were a deposit in such a Bank1[and as if for the words "three thousand" in2[Section 8] of the said Act the words "five thousand" were substituted] : Provided that the powers conferred by the said provisions on the Secretary of a Government Savings Bank shall be exercisable by the Post Master General for the area within which the post office of issue of such certificate is situate3[or if that area is in Pakistan, by the Postmaster-General for such area in India as the Central Government may be general or special order specify in this behalf] : Provided further that, where in any one case payment is to be made of certificates issued from more post offices than one, the said powers shall be exercisable by the Post Master General for the area in which any of the said post offices is situate. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to require any person to accept payment of the amount due on a Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate before the same has reached maturity. ________________________ 1. Inserted by the Post Office Cash Certificates (Amendment) Act, 1920 (32 of 1920), Section 3. 2......
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPost Office Cash Certificates Act, 1917 Section 2
Title: Prohibition of Transfer of Post Office 5-year Cash Certificates Without the Consent of an Authorised Officer
State: Central
Year: 1917
(1) Notwithstanding any provision in any enactment or any rule of law for the time being in force to the contrary, no transfer (whether made before or after commencement of this Act) of a Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate shall be valid without the previous consent in writing of1[an officer of the Post Office authorised by general or special order of the2[CentraI Governmentl in that behalf). (2) In this section "transfer" means a transfer inter vivos and does not include a transfer by operation of law. ________________________ 1. Substituted for the words "the Post Master General for the area in which the Post Office of issue is situate", by the Post Office Cash Certificates (Amendment) Act, 1920 (32 of 1920), Section 2. 2. Substituted for the words "Governor-General in Council" hy A.O., 1937.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPost Office Cash Certificates Act, 1917 Complete Act
Title: Post Office Cash Certificates Act, 1917
State: Central
Year: 1917
Preamble1 - POST OFFICE CASH CERTIFICATES ACT, 1917 Section1 - Short title Section2 - Prohibition of transfer of Post Office 5-year Cash Certificates without the consent of an authorised officer Section3 - Payment on death of holder of Post Office 5-year Cash Certificate
List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Preamble 1
Title: Indian Post Office Act, 1898
State: Central
Year: 1898
THE INDIAN POST OFFICE ACT, 1898 [Act, No. 6 of 1898]1 [22nd March, 1898] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Post Offices in India. Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Post Offices in India; It is hereby enacted as follows:-- _________________________ 1. Amended in its application to-- (1) the excluded and partially excluded areas in Assam by Assam Regulations 2 of 1941 and 1 of 1942 Respecitvely; (2) the partially excluded areas in Bihar by Bihar Regulation 3 of 1942; (3) the partially excluded areas in C.P. and Berar by C.P. abd Berar Regulation 1 of 1942; (4) the partially excluded areas in Orissa by Orissa Regulation 1 of 1942; (5) the Partially excluded areas in U.P. by U.P. Regulation 2 of 1942; and (6) the Darjeeling district by Bengal Regulation 7 of 1942.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian 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.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPost Office Cash Certificates Act, 1917 Preamble 1
Title: Post Office Cash Certificates Act, 1917
State: Central
Year: 1917
THE POST OFFICE CASH CERTIFICATES ACT, 1917 [Act, 18 of 1917] [19th September, 1917] PREAMBLE An Act to restrict the transfer of Post Office 5-Year Cash Certificates and to provide for the payment of Certificates standing in the name of deceased persons. WHEREAS it is expedient to restrict the transfer of Post Office 5-year cash certificates and to provide for the payment of certificates standing in the name of deceased persons ; It is hereby enacted as follows :
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 71
Title: Property in Cases of Offences to Be Laid in the Post Office
State: Central
Year: 1898
In every prosecution for an offence in respect of a mail bag or of any postal article sent by post, it shall be sufficient, for the purpose of the charge, to describe the mail bag or postal article as being the property of the Post Office, and it shall not be necessary to prove that the mail bag or postal article was of any value.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 55
Title: Penalty for Fraudulently Preparing, Altering Secreting or Destroying Post Office Documents
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office entrusted with the preparing or keeping of any document, fraudulently prepares the document incorrectly, or alters or secretes or destroys the document, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be punishable with fine.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 14
Title: Post Office Marks Prima Facie Evidence of Certain Facts Denoted
State: Central
Year: 1898
In every proceeding for the recovery of any postage or other sum alleged to be due under this Act in respect of a postal article,-- (a) the production of the postal article, having thereon the official mark of the Post Office denoting that the article has been refused, or that the addressee is dead or cannot be found, shall be prima facie evidence of the fact so denoted, and (b) the person from whom the postal article purports to have come, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be the sender thereof.
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