LawgistThe Indian Post Office Act
19ATransmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited
1[19A. Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited.--No person shall send by post,--
(a) any ticket, proposal or advertisement relating to a lottery; or
(b) any other matter descriptive of, or otherwise relating to, a lottery, which is calculated to act as an inducement to persons to participate in that lottery.
Explanation.--In this section "lottery" does not include a lottery organised or authorised by the Government.]
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1. Ins. by Act 7 of 1958, s. 2.
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
