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Start Free TrialIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter V
Title: Conditions of Transmission of Postal Articles
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.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 27
Title: Power to Deal with Postal Articles from Abroad Bearing Fictitious or Previously Used Stamps
State: Central
Year: 1898
.....not be delivered to him, but shall be disposed of in such manner as the Central Government may direct. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, the expression "postage stamp" includes any postage stamp for denoting any rate or duty of postage of any part of2[India or of His Majesty's dominions] or foreign country3[and the impression of any stamping machine provided or authorized for the like purpose to by or under the authority of the Government of such4[part or country]]. __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 25 of 1950, section. II and Schedule. IV, for "the States". 2. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "her Majesty's dominions or of any Indian State". 3. Inserted by Act 16 of 1924, section. 3. 4. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "part, State or country".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter VII
Title: Undelivered Postal Articles
State: Central
Year: 1898
.....undelivered postal articles at office of Post Master General (1) Every postal article received at the office of the Post Master General under sub-section (3) of Section 37 shall be dealt with as follows:-- (a) if practicable, it shall be re-directed and forwarded by post to the addressee; or (b) if it cannot be re-directed and forwarded as aforesaid, it shall be opened by some officer, appointed by the Post Master General in this behalf and bound to secrecy, in order to ascertain the name and address of the sender. (2) If the name and address of the sender are so ascertained, it shall be returned by post to the sender, free of further charge or subject to such further charge as the Central Government may, by rule, direct. Section 39 - Final disposal of undelivered postal articles Undelivered postal articles which cannot be disposed of under the foregoing provisions, shall be detained in the office of the Post Master General for such further period (if any), and shall be dealt with in such manner, as the Central Government may, by rule, direct: Provided that-- (a) letters and postcards shall be destroyed; (b) money or saleable property, not being of a perishable.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 35
Title: Power to Make Rules as to Value-payable Postal Articles
State: Central
Year: 1898
.....over to the Post Office for the purpose of being sent as "value-payable" and shall be delivered, when so sent, at such times and in such manner as the Director General may, by order, from time to time, appoint. 3[(4) No suit or other legal proceeding shall be instituted against4[the Central Government]5[* * *] or any officer of the Post Office in respect of anything done, or in good faith purporting to be done, under any rule made under clause (e) of sub-section (2).] __________________________ 1. The words "and omitted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 7. 2. Inserted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 7. 3. Inserted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 7. 4. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "the Secretary of State of India in Council". 5. The words "the Secretary of State" omitted by the A.O. 1948.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 24
Title: Power to Deal with Postal Articles Containing Goods Contraband or Liable to Duty
State: Central
Year: 1898
.....call in two respectable persons as witnesses before he opens a postal article in the absence of the addressee or his agent: Provided, secondly, that in all cases a postal article, after being opened under this section, shall be delivered to the addressee, unless it is required for the purpose of any further proceeding under this or any other law or enactment for the time being in force, and that the opening of the postal article and the circumstances connected therewith shall be immediately reported to the Post Master General. 2[* * *] __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 4, for "Where a postal article, suspected to contain any contraband goods". 2. Omitted by Act 15 of 1912, section. 2.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 37
Title: Power to Make Rules as to Disposal of Undelivered Postal Articles
State: Central
Year: 1898
(1) The Central Government may make rules as to the disposal of postal articles which for any reason cannot be delivered thereinafter 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.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 49
Title: Penalty for Misconduct of Person Employed to Carry or Deliver Mail Bags or Postal Articles
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever, being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or any postal article in course of transmission by post,-- (a) is in a state of intoxication while so employed, or (b) is guilty of carelessness or other misconduct, whereby the safety of any such mail bag or postal article as aforesaid is endangered, or (c) loiters or makes delay in the conveyance or delivery of any such mail bag or postal article as aforesaid, or (d) does not use due care and diligence safely to convey or deliver any such mail bag or postal article as aforesaid, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 21
Title: Power to Make Rules as to Transmission by Post of Postal Articles
State: Central
Year: 1898
1[(1) The Central Government may make rules as to the transmission of articles by post. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may-- (a) specify articles which may not be transmitted by post; (b) prescribe conditions on which articles may be transmitted by post; (c) provide for the detention and disposal of articles in course of transmission by post in contravention of rules made under clause (a) or clause (b); (d) provide for the granting of receipts for, and the granting and obtaining of certificates of, posting and delivery of postal articles and the sums to be paid, in addition to any other postage, for such receipts and certificates; and (e) regulate covers, forms, dimensions, maximum weights, and enclosures, and the use of postal articles, other than Setters, for making communications.] (3) Postal articles shall be posted and delivered at such times and in such manner as the Director General may, by order, from time to time, appoint. __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 2, for sub-sections (1) and (2).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 23
Title: Power to Deal with Postal Articles Posted in Contravention of Act
State: Central
Year: 1898
.....Post Master General in this behalf may open or unfasten any newspaper or any book, pattern or sample packet, in course of transmission by post, which he suspects to have been sent by post in contravention of1[section 20, clause (a), or of] section 21 or of any of the provisions of this Act relating to postage. (3) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1)-- (a) any postal article sent by post in contravention of the provisions of section 192[or section 19A] may, under the authority of the Post Master General, if necessary, be opened and destroyed; and 3[(b) any postal article sent by post in contravention of the provisions of section 20 may be disposed of in such manner as the Central Government may, by rule, direct.] __________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 3. 2. Inserted by Act 7 of 1958, section. 3. 3. Substituted by Act 3 of 1912, section. 3.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 34
Title: Transmission by Post of Value-payable Postal Articles
State: Central
Year: 1898
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that, subject to the other provisions of this Act and to the payment of fees at such rates as may be fixed by the notification, a sum of money specified in writing at the time of posting by the sender of a postal article shall be recoverable on the delivery thereof from the addressee, and that the sum, so recovered, shall be paid to the sender: Provided that1[the Central Government shall not] incur any liability in respect of the sum specified for recovery, unless and until that sum has been received from the addressee. Explanation. --Postal articles sent in accordance with the provisions of this section may be described as "value-payable" postal articles. __________________________ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1948, for "neither the Central Government nor the Secretary of State shall" which was Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "the Secretary of State of India in Council shall not".
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