The Indian Post Office Act
60Penalty for breach of rules under section 16
Whoever, being appointed to sell postage stamps,--
(a) takes from any purchaser for any postage stamp or quantity of postage stamps a price higher than that fixed by any rule made under section 16, sub-section (3), clause (a), shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both; or
(b) commits a breach of any other rule made under section 16, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
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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