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Indian Post Office Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Post Offices in India.
| Act Id | 189806 |
| Act Number | 06 |
| Enactment Date | 1898-03-22 |
| Act Year | 1898 |
| Ministry | Ministry of Communications |
| Enforcement Date | 01-07-1898 |
- PRELIMINARY
- PRIVILEGE AND PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT
- POSTAGE
- 7 Power to fix rates of inland postage
- 8 Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases
- 9 Power to make rules as to registered newspapers
- 10 Power to declare rates of foreign postage
- 11 Liability for payment of postage
- 12 Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles
- 13 Customs duty paid by the post office to be recoverable as postage
- 14 Post Office marks prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted
- 15 Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage
- POSTAGE STAMPS
- CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES
- 18 Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post
- 19 Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited
- 19A Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited
- 20 Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited
- 21 Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles
- 22 Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles
- 23 Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act
- 24 Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty
- 24A Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority
- 25 Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post
- 26 Power to intercept postal articles for public good
- 27 Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps
- 27A Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers
- 27B Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post
- 27C Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained
- 27D Jurisdiction barred
- REGISTRATION, INSURANCE AND VALUE-PAYABLE POST
- 28 Registration of postal articles
- 29 Power to make rules as to registration
- 30 Insurance of postal articles
- 31 Power to require insurance of postal articles
- 32 Power to make rules as to insurance
- 33 Liability in respect of postal articles insured
- 34 Transmission by post of value-payable postal articles
- 35 Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles
- 36 Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries
- UNDELIVERED POSTAL ARTICLES
- SHIP LETTERS
- 40 Duty of master of ship, departing from any port in India and not being a mail ship, to convey mail bags
- 41 Duty of master of ship arriving at any port in India in respect of postal articles and mail bags on board
- 42 Allowance of gratuities for conveyance of postal articles by ships other than mail ships
- MONEY ORDERS
- 43 Power to maintain money order system and to make rules as to remittances thereby
- 44 Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee
- 45 Power to provide for the issue of postal orders
- 46 Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries
- 47 Recovery of money order paid to the wrong person
- 48 Exemption from liability in respect of money orders
- Offences by officers of the Post Office
- 49 Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles
- 50 Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles
- 51 Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver any postal articles
- 52 Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away of postal articles
- 53 Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles
- 54 Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage
- 55 Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering secreting or destroying Post Office documents
- 56 Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles
- 57 [Repealed.]
- Other offences
- 58 Penalty for contravention of section 4
- 59 Penalty for contravention of section 5
- 60 Penalty for breach of rules under section 16
- 61 Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20
- 62 Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes
- 63 Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box
- 64 Penalty for making false declaration
- 65 Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41
- 66 Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port
- 67 Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag
- 68 Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags
- 69 Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters
- General
- SUPPLEMENTAL
