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32.-(1) No person shall post, tender for posting, or Prohibited send by post:

articles,

8 Edw. 7,

(a) any postal packet consisting of or containing c. 48, s. 63.

any thing which might expose postal officials to danger or which might soil or damage any other postal packet;

(b) any explosive, inflammable or dangerous sub-

stance;

(c) any animal or insect, live or dead, except as provided for in any regulations made under this Ordinance;

(d) samples of which the number forwarded by the same sender to the same addressee shows an obvious intention of avoiding the payment of the customs charges due to the country of destination (provided that such country is included in the Postal Union);

(e) any opium within the meaning of the Opium Ordinance

Ordinance, 1923;

No. 30 of 1923.

(f) any drug to which the Dangerous Drugs Ordi- Ordinance

nance, 1923, applies;

(g) any obscene, immoral, indecent, offensive or

libellous writing, picture or other thing;

(h) any thing whatsoever of which the importation or circulation is forbidden in the Colony or in the country of destination (provided that such country is included in the Postal Union);

No. 22 of 1923.

(i) any seditious matter within the meaning of Ordinance

the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914;

(j) any postal packet which, without lawful authority or excuse, contains or bears any imitation or representation of any postage stamp, British or foreign;

(k) any postal packet which purports to be pre- paid with any postage stamp which in fact has been used, or appears to have been used, to prepay any other postal article;

(1) any imitation of any envelope, wrapper, card, form, or document, issued by any postal authority, British or foreign;

(m) any postal packet bearing any imitation of any words, letters, or other marks, used by any postal authority, British or foreign;

(n) any, postal packet bearing, without lawful authority, any words, letters, or other marks, calculated to convey the impression that such postal packet has been sent on His Majesty's Service;

(o) any lottery tickets or any document relating to

any lottery;

(p) coin or gold or silver bullion; or

(q) any thing the sending of which by post is prohibited by any regulation made under this or any other Ordinance.

(2) No person shall post, or tender for posting, or send by post, in any particular kind of postal packet, any thing, if the sending of such thing by post in that kind of postal packet is prohibited by any regulation made under this Ordinance.

(3) The importation by post of any thing which is prohibited to be sent by post is prohibited.

(4) No person shall import any intoxicating liquor by post.

No. 6 of 1914.