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(4) Once a money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note has been paid to any person by an officer of the Post Office, or by an officer of any other postal authority, British or foreign, all liability of the Government in respect of such money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note shall cease and determine, and, except in the case of fraud or wilful misbehaviour, no officer of the Post Office shall, after such payment, be liable in respect of such money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal
note.
8.The decision of the Postmaster General as to Decision of whether any postal packet is or contains a circular, a
Postmaster commercial paper, a letter, a newspaper, a parcel, a post- classification General as to card, a printed paper, or a sample, or literature for the of postal blind and any other decision of the Postmaster General packets final. as to the classification of any postal article, shall be final 8 Edw. 7, for all purposes.
c. 48, s. 19.
9.-It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General in Discretion as his discretion to decide any question as to the relative to relative urgency of particular mails or particular classes of postal urgency. packets and to postpone the delivery or despatch of any 8 Edw, 7, mails or postal packets to the delivery or despatch of any more urgent mails or postal packets.
c. 48, s. 15.
10. It shall be lawful for any officer of the Post Postal Office to open-
(1) any postal packets upon which the prepay- ment of postage is compulsory and upon which the proper postage has not been paid; and (2) any postal packet which is returned to the Post Office for want of a proper address or from inability to find the person to whom it is addressed or because the addressee refuses to accept it, or which in the opinion of the Post- master General cannot for any other reason be delivered.
packets which cannot be despatched or delivered.
11. When any postal packet has been posted by Postal mistake, or has been posted with wrong or deficient packets contents, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General, posted by in his discretion, to return such postal packet to the mistake or
with wrong sender on payment of such fee (if any) as may be pre- or deficient scribed by regulations made under this Ordinance. contents.
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12. If the Postmaster General has reason to believe Postal that any postal packet has been posted or sent by post packets in contravention of this Ordinance or of any regulation which made thereunder, or that any postal packet whatsoever the law, etc. contains any thing which may not legally be sent by 8 Edw. 7, post, or contains any thing with respect to which, or by c. 48, ss. 17, means of which, any offence whatsoever has been or is 18. being committed or attempted, or contains any dutiable article, it shall be lawful for him to open such postal packet and to delay such postal packet and its contents.
13.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary Warrant of to grant a warrant authorising the Postmaster General, Colonial or authorising any of or all the officers of the Post Secretary for
opening and Office, to open and delay any specified postal packet, or delaying all postal packets of any specified class, posted in the postul Colony or received by the Post Office from outside the packets. Colony for delivery in the Colony, or any postal packet which may be posted in the Colony by any specified person or firm or which may be received by the Post Office from outside the Colony for delivery in the Colony to any specified person or firm.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to delay any postal packet for such time as may reasonably be necessary for the purpose of obtaining a warrant under this section.
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