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(j) "Postage stamp means any label or stamp-
for denoting any rate of postage payable in respect of postal articles, and includes adhesive postage stamps and stamps printed, embossed, impressed or otherwise indicated on envelope, wrapper, postcard or other article, whether such postage stamp is issued under this Ordinance, or by His Majesty's Postmaster General, or by the government of any British. possession or foreign country.
(k) "Postal article" includes everything which
is transmissible by post.
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(1) "Postal packet means a postal article, or a collection of postal articles, which is in course of transmission by post as one postal unit. (m) "Postmaster General ” means, unless His Majesty's Postmaster General is indicated, the Postmaster General of the Colony, and includes every Assistant Postmaster General.
(n) "Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation and every description of aircraft.
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance,
(a) a postal article shall be deemed to be in course of transmission by post from the time of its being duly delivered to a post office to the time of its being delivered to the addressee or its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under the provisions of this Ordi-
nance;
(b) the placing of a postal article in any receiving box for the deposit of postal articles, or the delivery of an article to an officer of the post office in the course of his duties shall be deemed to be delivery to a post office; and
(c) the following shall be deemed to be delivery
of a postal packet to the addressee :-
(i) delivery according to the usual manner of delivering postal packets to the addressee: cr
(ii) delivery at the house or office of the
addressee or
(iii) delivery to the addressee or to his ser- vant or agent or other person having authority to receive such packet: or (iv) when the addressee is a guest and is resident at an hotel, delivery to the proprietor or manager thereof or to his- agent.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations in respect of any of the following
matters -
(a) cash on delivery parcels;
(b) compensation for loss of, or damage to, postal
packets;
(c) fines for insufficient postage;
(d) gratuities for the conveyance of postal packets.
by sea;
(e) insurance of postal packets;
(f) late fees;
(g) limitations of the form, size, weight and con-,
tents of postal packets;
() money orders, telegraph money orders, postal
orders and postal notes;
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