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No. 6 of 1900.
POST OFFICE.
correspondence containing or believed to contain any lottery ticket or any advertisement of prizes or any other announcement relating to any public lottery, sweepstakes, or other gambling transaction.
12a. If the Postmaster General shall have reason to believe that postal articles any postal article received from beyond the limits of the Colony contains goods, the importation of which is forbidden or restricted, or anything liable to duty, or if he be so informed, he shall require by notice in writing the attendance at the Post Office, at a specified time, of the addressee of such postal article or of some agent deputed in writing by such addressee, and such postal article shall then be opened by the addressee or his agent in the presence of the Postmaster General or of an officer of the Post Office. If the addressee or his agent fail to attend in pursuance of the notification the article shall be opened by the Postmaster General and may be delivered to the addressee or confiscated or otherwise dealt with as may be required by law.
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13. (1) Any question whether an 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, shall be decided by the Postmaster General.
(2) The Governor may, on the application of any person interested, reverse or modify such decision, and order accordingly.
14. All correspondence which arrives fully paid, according to the rates in force, shall be delivered or transmitted from the Post Office without further charge.
15. All letters received or sent by sailors or soldiers of His Majesty's naval or military forces shall be charged with the same reduction in the rates of postage as is allowed to them by Act of Parliament.
16. The Governor may provide proper postage stamps and proper dies and other implements for denoting, by adhesive stamps or otherwise, the rates of postage payable.
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§ As amended by No. 1 of 1912.
§ As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
§ As amended by No. 51 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912 and No. 22 of 1912.
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