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liability.
8 Edw. 7, c. 48, ss. 13, 23.
Decision of
postal packet, or by reason of any damage to any postal packet, whether registered or not.
(2) No officer of the Post Office shall incur any liability by reason of such loss, non-delivery, misdelivery, delay or damage, except in the case of fraud or wilful misbehaviour.
(3) Neither the Government nor any officer of the Post Office shall incur any liability for the loss, non-delivery, misdelivery or delay of, or damage to, any postal article, whether registered or not, caused by the act or default of any person licensed in accordance with section 6 (2), or caused by the act or default of any servant or agent of any such licensed person.
(4) Once a money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note has been paid to any person by an officer of the Post Office or by an officer of any other postal authority, British or foreign, all liability of the Government in respect of such money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note shall cease and determine, and, except in the case of fraud or wilful misbehaviour, no officer of the Post Office shall, after such payment, be liable in respect of such money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note.
8. The decision of the Postmaster General as to whether any postal packet is or contains a circular, a commercial paper, a letter, a newspaper, a parcel, a postcard, a printed paper or a sample or literature for the blind, and any other decision of the Postmaster General as to the classification of any postal article, shall be final for all purposes.
classification of postal packets final.
8 Edw. 7, c. 48, s. 19.
Discretion as to relative urgency. 8 Edw. 7, c. 48, s. 15.
Postal packets which cannot be despatched
9. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General in his discretion to decide any question as to the relative urgency of particular mails or particular classes of postal packets and to postpone the delivery or despatch of any mails or postal packets to the delivery or despatch of any more urgent mails or postal packets.
10. It shall be lawful for any officer of the Post Office to open—
(1) any postal packet upon which the prepayment of postage is compulsory and upon which the proper postage has not been paid; and
1672
No. 7 of 1926.
POST OFFICE.
liability.
8 Edw. 7, c. 48, ss. 13, 23.
Decision of
postal packet, or by reason of any damage to any postal packet, whether registered or not.
(2) No officer of the Post Office shall incur any liability by reason of such loss, non-delivery, misdelivery, delay or damage, except in the case of fraud or wilful misbehaviour.
(3) Neither the Government nor any officer of the Post Office shall incur any liability for the loss, non-delivery, mis- delivery or delay of, or damage to, any postal article, whether registered or not, caused by the act or default of any person licensed in accordance with section 6 (2), or caused by the act or default of any servant or agent of any such licensed person.
(4) Once a money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note has been paid to any person by an officer of the Post Office or by an officer of any other postal authority, British or foreign, all liability of the Government in respect of such money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note shall cease and determine, and, except in the case of fraud or wilful misbehaviour, no officer of the Post Office shall, after such payment, be liable in respect of such money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note.
8. The decision of the Postmaster General as to whether Postmaster any postal packet is or contains a circular, a commercial paper, a letter, a newspaper, a parcel, a postcard, a printed paper or a Sample or literature for the blind, and any other decision of the Postmaster General as to the classification of any postal article, shall be final for all purposes.
classification of postal packets final.
.8 Edw. 7,
c. 48, s. 19.
Discretion as to relative urgency. 8 Edw. 7, c 48, s. 15.
Postal packets which
cannot be
despatched
9. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General in his discretion to decide any question as to the relative urgency of particular mails or particular classes of postal packets and to postpone the delivery or despatch of any mails or postal packets to the delivery or despatch of any more urgent mails or postal packets.
10. It shall be lawful for any officer of the Post Office to open-
(1) any postal packet upon which the prepayment of postage or delivered. is compulsory and upon which the proper postage has not been
paid; and
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