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No. 6 of 1900.
POST OFFICE.
Liability for unpaid or insufficient postage.
*
Post Office mark evidence of refusal, etc.
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000
$
Short title.
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thereof shall be commenced within one year after the offence was committed.
40.-(1) In any case where either no postage or insufficient postage on correspondence has been paid by the sender, double such postage or double the deficiency in such postage shall be paid by the person to whom the correspondence is addressed on the delivery thereof to him; but if the correspondence is refused, or the person to whom it is addressed is dead or cannot be found, the writer or sender shall pay double such postage or double the deficiency of postage.
(2) Any money payable under this section may be recovered at the suit of the Postmaster General.
(3) In such proceedings---
(a) the production of any postal packet in respect of which any money is sought to be recovered having thereupon a Post Office stamp or any writing denoting that the packet has been refused or rejected, or that the addressee was dead or could not be found, shall be primâ facie evidence of the fact denoted; and
(b) the person from whom any postal packet in respect of which any money is sought to be recovered purports to have come shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be the sender of the packet.
No. 7 of 1900.
To ensure the observance, by those in charge of Launches, of precautions against Piracy and Robbery.
[20th October, 1900.]
WHEREAS it is manifest that the commission of acts of piracy and robbery upon launches has, in certain cases, been facilitated by the apathy and carelessness of those in charge of such launches and by their omission to take reasonable precautions against such acts; AND WHEREAS there is reason to suspect that, in some instances, members of the crew of such launches have been in collusion with the robbers or have connived at their unlawful acts; AND WHEREAS it is expedient to provide a remedy for this evil:- 1. The Launch (Protection against Piracy) Ordinance, 1900.
* As amended by No. 1 of 1912.
As amended by No. 82 of 1911.
§ As amended by No. 1 of 1912 and No. 8 of 1912.
As amended by No. 8 of 1912.
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