POST OFFICE.
No. 6 of 1900.
1087
proceedings
7 Will. 4 & 1
43. In any proceedings against any person for any offence Allegations committed against this Ordinance in respect of any letter to be used in bag or correspondence, it shall be sufficient to allege such for offence. letter bag or correspondence to be the property of the Postmaster General without mentioning his name; and in any such proceedings against any person employed by or under the Post Office, it shall be sufficient to allege that such person was employed by or under the Post Office, without stating further the nature or particulars of his employment.
44. Any pecuniary penalty for an offence against this Recovery of Ordinance may be recovered summarily, but proceedings for pecuniary penalty, and the recovery thereof shall be commenced within one year limitation of after the offence was committed.
time.
insufficient
45.-(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-
Post Office mark
refusal, etc.
(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No. 7 of 1900, repealed by No. 23 of 1914.
No. 8 of 1900, repealed by No. 34 of 1910.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.