POST OFFICE.
No. 6 of 1900.
1077
postage.
9.-(1) The Governor in Council may, by notification, determine the rates of postage to be charged upon all correspondence sent by post from the General Post Office or received therein from places outside the Colony: Provided that no such notification shall be inconsistent with any instructions transmitted from the Secretary of State or from the Imperial Postmaster General.
(2) All duties of postage and other sums in respect of postal packets payable in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be chargeable as stamp duties, and all enactments relating to stamp duties shall apply accordingly.
[s. 10, rep. No. I of 1912.]
11. The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, make, in relation to correspondence sent by post, regulations as to the times and modes of posting and delivery, prepayment, late fees, rates on unpaid correspondence, the registration of correspondence, money orders, the sale and affixing of postage stamps, the dimensions, weights, and contents of packets, and other such similar regulations as the Governor thinks necessary for the better execution of this Ordinance.
12. The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, make, in relation to correspondence sent by post, regulations prohibiting the conveyance of such articles as he may think fit; for preventing the sending or delivery by post of seditious, indecent or obscene prints, paintings, photographs, lithographs, engravings, books or cards or of other indecent or obscene articles, or of letters, newspapers, supplements, publications, packets or post cards having thereon or on the covers thereof any words, marks or designs of an indecent, obscene, libellous or grossly offensive character; and for prohibiting the receiving in and delivery by the Post Office of 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 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 sender or the addressee to ...