Sec 381 - Year 1898 - Bare Acts

Lepers Act, 1898 Section 3

Title: Appointment of Leper Asylums by State Government

State: Central

Year: 1898

The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint any place to be a leper asylum if it is satisfied that adequate arrangements have been made or will be made for the accommodation and medical treatment of lepers therein, and may, b a like notification, specify the local areas from which lepers may be sent to such asylum.]

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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 62

Title: Penalty for Defiling or Injuring Post Office Letter-boxes

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever places in or against any letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles any fire, match or tight, any explosive, dangerous, filthy, noxious or deleterious substance, or any fluid, or commits a nuisance in or against any such letter-box, or does anything likely to injure any such letter-box or its appurtenances or contents, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 47

Title: Recovery of Money Order Paid to the Wrong Person

State: Central

Year: 1898

If any person, without reasonable excuse, the burden of proving which shall lie on him, neglects or refuses to refund-- (a) any amount paid to him in respect of a money order by an officer of the Post Office in excess of what ought to have been paid to him in respect thereof, or (b) the amount of a money order paid by an officer of the Post Office to him instead of to some other person to whom it ought to have been paid, such amount shall be recoverable by an officer of the Post Office authorized by the Post Master General in this behalf from the person so neglecting or refusing as if it were an arrear of land revenue due from him.1 ________________________ 1. The Revenue Recovery Act, 1890 (1 of 1890).

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Indian 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.

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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 51

Title: Penalty for Making False Entry in Register Kept by Person Employed to Carry or Deliver Any Postal Articles

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever, being employed to carry or deliver any postal article in course of transmission by post and required while so employed to keep any register, makes, or causes or suffers to be made, any false entry in the register with intent to induce the belief that he has visited a place, or delivered a postal article, which he has not visited or delivered, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.

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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 52

Title: Penalty for Theft, Dishonest Misappropriation, Secretion, Destruction, or Throwing Away of Postal Articles

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office, commits theft in respect of, or dishonestly misappropriates, or, for any purpose whatsoever, secretes, destroys or throws away, any postal article in course of transmission by post or anything contained therein, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be punishable with fine.

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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 54

Title: Penalty for Fraud in Connection with Official Marks and for Receipt of Excess Postage

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office,-- (a) fraudulently puts any wrong official mark on a postal article, or (b) fraudulently alters, removes or causes to disappear an official mark which is on a postal article, or (c) being entrusted with the delivery of any postal article, knowingly demands or receives any sum of money in respect ofthe postage thereof which is not chargeable under this Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be punishable with fine.

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Indian 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.

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Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 56

Title: Penalty for Fraudulently Sending Unpaid Postal Articles

State: Central

Year: 1898

Whoever, being an officer of the Post Office, sends by post, or puts into any mail bag, any postal article upon which postage has not been paid or charged in the manner prescribed by this Act, intending thereby to defraud the Government of the postage on such postal article, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be punishable with fine.

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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.

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