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Title: Penalty for Master of Ship Failing to Comply with the Provisions of Section 40 or 41
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever, being the master of a ship,-- (a) fails to comply with the provisions of section 40, or (b) without reasonable excuse, the burden of proving which shall He on him, fails io deliver any postal article or mail bag or to comply with the directions of the officer in charge of the post office at a port of arrival, as required by section 41, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
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Title: Punishment of Offences Committed in a Tribal Area, Acceding State or Other Indian State[Repealed]
State: Central
Year: 1898
[Rep. by the Finance Act, 1950 (25 of 1950), section.II and Schedule.IV.]
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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.
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Title: Penalty for Abetting or Attempting to Commit, Offences Under Act
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever, abets the commission of any offence punishable under this Act or attempts to commit any offence so punishable, shall be punishable with the punishment provided for that offence.
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Title: Penalty for Unlawfully Diverting Letters
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever, not being an officer of the Post Office, wilfully and maliciously, with intent to injure any person, either opens or causes to be opened any letter which ought to have been delivered, or does any act whereby the due delivery of a letter to any person is prevented or impeded, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who does any act to which the section applies, if he is a parent, or in the position of a parent or guardian, of the addressee, and the addressee is a minor or a ward.
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Title: Penalty for Retaining Postal Articles Wrongly Delivered or Mail Bags
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever fraudulently retains, or wilfully secretes or makes away with, or keeps or detains, or when required by an officer of the Post Office, neglects or refuses to deliver up, any postal article in course of transmission by post which ought to have been delivered to any other person, or a mail bag containing a 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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Title: Penalty for Detaining Mails or Opening Mail Bag
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever, except under the authority of this Act1[or of any other Act for the time being in force] or in obedience to the order in writing of the Central Government or the direction of a competent Court, detains the mails or any postal article in course of transmission by post, or on any pretence opens, a mail bag in course of transmission by post, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees: Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent the detention of an officer of the Post Office carrying the mails or any postal article in course of transmission by post, on a charge of having committed an offence declared to be cognizable by the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), or any other taw for the time being in force. ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 15 of 1921, section. 4.
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Title: Penalty for Detention of Letters on Board Vessel Arriving in Port
State: Central
Year: 1898
(1) Whoever, being either the master of a ship arriving at any port in1[India] or any one on board, knowingly has in his baggage or in his possession or custody, after the postal articles on board or any of them have been sent to the post office at the port of arrival, any postal article within the exclusive privilege conferred on the Central Government by section 4, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every such postal article as aforesaid. (2) Whoever, being such master or other person as aforesaid, detains any such postal article as aforesaid after demand made for it by an officer of the Post Office, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every such postal article. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 25 of 1950, sec. 11 and Sch. IV, for "the States".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 64
Title: Penalty for Making False Declaration
State: Central
Year: 1898
Whoever, being required by this Act to make a declaration in respect of any postal article to be sent by post or the contents or value thereof, makes in his declaration any statement which he knows, or has reason to believe, to be false, or does not believe to be true, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, and, if the false declaration is made for the purpose of defrauding the Government, with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
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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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