POST OFFICE.
No. 6 of 1900.
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(1) any correspondence upon which the prepayment of postage is compulsory, and which cannot be sent unpaid by another route, and upon which the proper postage has not been paid; and
(2) any correspondence which is returned to the General Post Office for want of a proper address or from inability to find the person to whom it is addressed.
dealing with package sent to Post Office by mistake.
18. When any package is delivered to the Post Office and has thereby become liable to postage, and evidence is adduced, to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General, that such package has been delivered to the Post Office by mistake, the Postmaster General may cause such package to be opened in the presence of an officer in the Post Office, and may return the same without charge to the person interested, unless such package is found to contain any correspondence liable to postage, in which case the Postmaster General shall retain the package until the full rate of postage chargeable upon such correspondence is paid.
19.-(1) After any correspondence has been delivered to the Post Office, no person employed by or under the Post Office shall, except in the cases above mentioned, open the same, or delay its transmission, or return it to any person, or procure or suffer it to be opened, delayed, or returned, unless he is authorised by express warrant in writing under the hand of the Governor.
(2) The Governor may, in his discretion, grant any such warrant for opening or returning any specified letter or other article of correspondence.
[7 Will. IV. & 1 Vict. c. 36 s. 25.]
20. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, any correspondence tendered for conveyance by post or posted which contains or bears any facsimile or imitation or any representation of any postage stamp or any fictitious postage stamp, or which purports to be prepaid with any postage stamp which has been used to prepay or appears to have been used to prepay any other correspondence, may be detained by an officer of the Post Office or person employed by or under the Post Office, and may be returned or given up to the sender or otherwise dealt with or disposed of in such manner as the Postmaster General may direct.
* As amended by No. 1 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1912.