Lawgist25Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post
Where a notification has been published under section 19 of the Sea Customs Act, 1878 (8 of 1878), in respect of any goods of any specified description 1[or where the import or export into or from 2[India] of goods of any specified description has been prohibited or restricted by or under any other enactment for the time being in force], any officer of the post office empowered in this behalf by the Central Government may search, or cause search to be made, for any such goods in course of transmission by post, and shall deliver 3[all postal articles reasonably believed or found to contain such goods] to such officer as the Central Government may appoint in this behalf, and such goods may be disposed of in such manner as the Central Government may direct 4[In carrying out any such search, such officer of the Post Office may open or unfasten, or cause to be opened or unfastened, any newspaper or any book, pattern or sample packet in course of transmission by post.]
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1. Ins. by Act 2 of 1930, s. 40 and Schedule II.
2. Subs. by Act 25 of 1950, s. 11 and the Fourth Schedule, for "the States".
3. Subs. by Act 3 of 1912, s. 5, for "all such goods found".
4. Ins. by Act 3 of 1912, s. 5.
- 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
