POST OFFICE.
No. 6 of 1900.
1079
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 Post Office in the presence of an officer of 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.
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 pre-paid with any postage stamp which has been used to pre-pay or appears to have been used to pre-pay any other correspondence, may be detained by any 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.
20A. (1) It shall be lawful for any public officer who may, either generally or in a particular case, be authorised in writing by the Postmaster General in that behalf, to search for, seize, remove, and detain any postal articles in respect of which such public officer may have reason to believe that any offence whatsoever has been or is about to be committed.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
† As amended by No. 17 of 1915 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.