1988 Ed.]
Post Office Regulations
[CAP. 98
A 3
[Subsidiary]
(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1)(d)—
(a) a person shall not be deemed to be a candidate unless he is shown as a person validly nominated in the notice of nominations published in the Gazette in accordance with the provisions of the Legislative Council (Electoral Provisions) (Procedure) Regulations (Cap. 381, sub. leg.) or the Electoral Provisions (Procedure) Regulations (Cap. 367, sub. leg.); but until the publication of that notice any person who declares himself to be a candidate shall be entitled to exercise the right to free postage conferred by this regulation if he furnishes the Postmaster General with such security as may be required for the payment of postage should he not subsequently be shown in such notice as a person validly nominated;
(b) the expressions "constituency", "elector" and "final register" have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, in the Legislative Council (Electoral Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 381) or the Electoral Provisions Ordinance (Cap. 367). (L.N. 16/63; L.N. 394/81; 22 of 1988 s. 5.8)
7.
The following postal packets shall be charged the same rates of postage as if they were letters-
(a) all postal packets which are closed to inspection except parcels; and
(b) all postal packets which contain a letter.
8. No postal packet shall contain any enclosure which is directed to a name and address different from the name and address borne on the cover and which is enclosed with the intention of evading postage. Any such enclosure may be taken out and may be forwarded to the addressee charged with separate postage.
9. (1) Where the postage payable on any postal packet is required to be prepaid and has not been prepaid or has not been fully prepaid, the following surcharge shall be payable (1 of 1987 s. 9)
(a) in the case of an overseas postal packet, a fee of $3 in addition to the postage or the deficiency as the case may be; and (L.N. 184/81; L.N. 60/85; L.N. 191/88)
(b) in the case of an inland postal packet, double the postage or double the deficiency as the case may be,
save that in the case of a postal packet other than a letter, the Postmaster General may detain the packet and return it to the sender.
(2) An air mail packet on which no part, or a part only, of the postage payable thereon has been prepaid may be dealt with as if it were not an air mail packet.
(L.N. 270/75)
10. Notwithstanding any alternative method of treatment and disposal of prohibited articles authorized by the Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General, or any officer of the Post Office authorized by him in that behalf, forthwith to destroy any postal packet and the contents thereof which may have been opened under the authority of section 10, 12, or 13 of the Ordinance.