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Letters excepted under Acts of Imperial Parliament.
(Ibid, sec. 4, and See 1 Vic, c. 33, Sec. 2.)
Receipt of postage and accounts. [See Ord. 8 of 1802, sec. 7.]
Governor in Council may fix rates of postage.
[Ibid, sec. 24 and 34 & 35 Vic. c. 30 sec. 1.]
Orders to be published by proclamation. [Ibid.]
The Governor may make regulations. [Ibid.]
Decision as to newspapers, packets, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 10 of 1876.
Post Office.
8. All correspondence which, by any Act of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Imperial Post Office, shall within this Colony be, and the same is hereby declared to be, excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General of the Colony.
9. The Postmaster General shall receive all postage payable in the Colony and shall keep accounts of all correspondence received and despatched by him, with the particulars of the postage thereof, in such manner and form as the Governor may, from time to time, direct; but so that the accounts of monies payable to the Imperial Postmaster General be kept distinct from the accounts of monies payable to the Colonial Treasury.
The Postmaster General shall keep the accounts of monies payable to the Imperial Postmaster General in such form and shall transmit such monies in such manner, as the said Imperial Postmaster General may, from time to time, direct.
10. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, by order under his hand determine the rates of postage to be charged upon all correspondence sent by post from the General Post Office of the Colony, or received therein from places outside the Colony, and the scale of weights according to which such rates are to be charged, and may revoke, alter, or add to any such order, so however, that no order be inconsistent with any instructions on the subject transmitted from the Secretary of State or the Imperial Postmaster General.
11. The Governor shall publish every such order by proclamation in the Gazette; and every order, when so published, shall have the same effect as if it had been inserted in this Ordinance.
12. The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, from time to time, make, alter, and repeal, in relation to correspondence sent by post, such regulations as he thinks fit for regulating the times and modes of posting and delivery, pre-payment, late fees, fines on unpaid correspondence, the registry of correspondence, money orders, the sale and affixing of postage stamps, the dimensions, weight, and contents of packets, and other such similar regulations as the Governor, from time to time, thinks necessary for the better execution of this Ordinance.
All such regulations as affect the public shall be published in the Gazette, and shall have no effect until so published.
13. If a question arises whether any article of correspondence is a letter, or whether any publication is a newspaper or a supplement, or whether any packet is a book packet or pattern or sample packet, within the meaning of this Ordinance, or of any order in Council, or regulations made thereunder, the decision thereon of the Postmaster General shall be final, save that the Governor may, if he thinks fit, on the application of any person interested, reverse or modify the decision, and order accordingly.