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Amendment of section 32.
Addition of
new section
32D.
Ord. No. 1/87
POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT)
5. Section 32 of the principal Ordinance is amended by dele subsection (4).
6. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 32C, the following
"Bills for unordered goods and services.
Amendment of section 38.
7.
Substitution of
“Hong Kong”
for "the
32D. (1) No person shall post or tender for posting or send by post, any bill, invoice or statement of account due (or any document which could reasonably be considered to be or has the appearance of a bill, invoice or statement of account due) in respect of goods or services which have not been ordered or requested by the addressee, unless the following notice, or a notice to the like effect, in block letters and Chinese characters appears prominently and legibly on its face-
"THIS IS NOT A DEMAND FOR PAYMENT
THERE IS NO OBLIGATION TO PAY
THIS IS NOT A BILL
本郵件並非要求付款通知書
收件人不須付款
本郵件並非帳單”.
(2) The notice referred to in subsection (1) shall be in
writing that is
(a) bolder than any other writing on the page; and
(b) not smaller than the largest letter or character, as
the case may be, of any other writing on the page.
(3) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, con- travenes subsection (1) shall be liable to a fine of $100,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years.".
Section 38 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by deleting "$500" wherever it occurs and substituting the
following
"$10,000"; and
(b) by deleting "$250" and substituting the following---
"$2,000".
8. The principal Ordinance and the Post Office Regulations are amended by deleting "the Colony" wherever it occurs and substituting the following
187.
Ord. No. 1/87
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POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT)
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 7th day of January
LAW Kam-sang,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
LAW Kam-sang,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
Colony".
(Cap. 98,
sub. leg.)
“Hong Kong”.
Consequential amendment.
(Cap. 98, sub. leg.)
9.
Regulation 9(1) of the Post Office Regulations is amended by inserting, after "packet” in the first place where it occurs, the following-
"is required to be prepaid and".
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