| 1.
| | This Ordinance may be cited as the Post Office Ordinance. |
| 2.
| | Presumptions as to delivery of postal articles. |
| 3.
| | Establishment of post offices. |
| 4.
| | Monopoly of carriage of letters. |
| 5.
| | Definitions for purposes of sections 3 and 4. |
| 6.
| | Government protected from liability for losses not caused by wilful act or default |
| 7.
| | Power to fix rates of potage. |
| 8.
| | Power to make rules. [ 2, Law 6 of 1973] |
| 9.
| | Power to make rules for transmission of registered newspapers. |
| 10.
| | Arrangements with other countries for the transmission of postal articles. |
| 11.
| | Payment of surcharged postage on insufficiently stamped articles. |
| 12.
| | Enforcement of Payment of postage. |
| 13.
| | Recovery of customs duty by the post office. |
| 14.
| | Rules of evidence. |
| 15.
| | Further rules of evidence. |
| 16.
| | Provision of postage stamps and power to make rules as to them. |
| 17.
| | Postage stamps protected by Penal Code. |
| 18.
| | Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission. |
| 19.
| | Transmission by post of injurious, filthy and noxious articles prohibited. |
| 20.
| | Transmission by post of anything indecent, & c, prohibited. |
| 21.
| | Power to make rules as to transmission by post and delivery of postal articles. |
| 22.
| | Delivery of letters to take precedence over delivery of other postal articles. |
| 23.
| | Power to deal with articles posted in contravention of this Ordinance. |
| 24.
| | Examination of postal articles received from beyond seas for the purpose of customs duties. |
| 25.
| | In public emergencies the Minister may direct the interception of any postal article. |
| 26.
| | Use of fictitious and previously used stamps prohibited. |
| 27.
| | Registration of postal articles. |
| 28.
| | Power to make rules as to registration. |
| 29.
| | Insurance of postal articles. |
| 30.
| | Insurance when to be compulsory. |
| 31.
| | Power to make rules as to insurance. |
| 32.
| | Government to be liable for the amount insured. |
| 33.
| | Compensation may be paid on uninsured articles. |
| 34.
| | Combined rates for postage, registration, and insurance |
| 35.
| | Value-payable postal articles. |
| 36.
| | Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles. |
| 37.
| | Power to make rules as to postal articles which cannot be delivered. |
| 38.
| | Postal article addressed to any person at any bank, shipping office, & c, deemed to be under control of Postmaster-General until delivered to addressee. |
| 39.
| | Postal articles addressed to any person at any bank, & c, if not delivered to addressee to be returned to nearest post office. |
| 40.
| | Postal articles on ships or aircraft. |
| 41.
| | Customs officer may seize mail bags in respect of which the law has been infringed. |
| 42.
| | Master of vessel to give notice of his intended departure. |
| 43.
| | Master of ship bound to receive and convey mail bag tendered to him by officer of the post office. |
| 44.
| | Gratuities to be given for the conveyance of mails. |
| 45.
| | Issue and payment of money orders. |
| 46.
| | Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee. |
| 47.
| | Issue of postal orders. |
| 48.
| | Moneys paid in error may be recovered. |
| 49.
| | Matters in respect of which no suit lies against the Government or any officer of the post office. |
| 50.
| | Money and postal orders to be deemed valuable securities for the purposes of the Penal Code. |
| 51.
| | Vehicles used for the purposes of the post office immune from taxation. |
| 51A.
| | Official inscription on mail bags.[ 2,24 of 1957] |
| 52.
| | Offences by persons employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or postal article. |
| 53.
| | Person employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or postal article prohibited from withdrawing from duties without notice. |
| 54.
| | Punishment of person employed to carry or deliver any postal article for making false entry. |
| 55.
| | Theft by officer of the post office. |
| 56.
| | Unlawful opening and detention of postal articles by officer of the post office. |
| 57.
| | Offences in respect of official marks. |
| 58.
| | Fraudulently altering or destroying a document. |
| 59.
| | Reissuing a postal order previously paid. |
| 60.
| | Defrauding Government of postage. |
| 61.
| | Other offences. |
| 62.
| | Enhanced punishment on person previously convicted. |
| 63.
| | Carrying, & c, letters in contravention of section 4 an offence. |
| 64.
| | Offences by vendors of postage stamps. |
| 65.
| | Punishment for offences in contravention of sections 19 and 20. |
| 66.
| | Offences relating to letter-boxes. |
| 67.
| | Punishment for disfiguring a post office or letter-box. |
| 68.
| | Punishment for making false declarations. |
| 70.
| | Punishment of master for retaining postal articles. |
| 71.
| | Punishment for wrongful detention of mails. |
| 72.
| | Punishment for fraudulent retention of or refusal to deliver postal articles. |
| 73.
| | Offences by licensees banks, &c. |
| 74.
| | Punishment for unlawfully opening letters. |
| 75.
| | Punishment for unlawfully disclosing contents of a postal article. |
| 76.
| | Manufacture and unlawful possession of fictitious. |
| 76A.
| | Punishment for making without lawful authority the official inscription on any mail bag. [ 3, 24 of 1957] |
| 76B.
| | Punishment for alteration, defacement or obliteration of, or causing to disappear, the official inscription on any mail bag. [ 3, 24 of 1957] |
| 77.
| | Power of Postmaster General to compound certain offences. |
| 78.
| | Punishment for receiving, possessing, keeping, selling or delivering, without lawful excuse, any mail bag bearing official inscription. [ 3, 24 of 1957] |
| 79.
| | Punishment of abetment of offences. |
| 80.
| | Description of postal articles in criminal charges. |
| 81.
| | Penalty for breach of rules. |
| 82.
| | Trial of offences. |
| 83.
| | Officers of post office to be exempt from serving on any jury. |
| 84.
| | Officers of the post office prohibited from taking postal contracts and from collecting postage stamps. |
| 85.
| | Minister may delegate certain postmaster General. |
| 86.
| | Further power Minister to make rules. |
| 88.
| | Interpretation. |
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