1794 ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1884.
Post Office.
No. 12 of 1884.
Title. An Ordinance entitled The Post Office Ordinance , 1884 .
[ 23rd April, 1884. ]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative
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BR Council thereof, as follows :
Interpretation. 1. In this Ordinance, and in any Order in Council or regulation made thereunder,
unless the context indicates the contrary, the following expressions shall have the
meanings set against them respectively, that is to say :
Postmaster General shall mean the Postmaster General of the Colony.
Correspondence shall mean any letter, newspaper, book, pamphlet, document, parcel ,
or package, or other article whatsoever transmitted by post, whether in a closed mail
or having been placed loose on board any contract packet or vessel for transmission ;
and a letter or other article shall be deemed to be correspondence from the time of
its arrival within the limits of the Colony, if brought to the Colony by post, or from
the time of its delivery to the Post Office if not so brought, and in either case shall
continue to be deemed correspondence to the time of its delivery from the Post Office;
and delivery to or by any person authorized to receive or deliver letter bags or corres
pondence on behalf of the Postmaster General shall be a delivery to or from the
Post Office.
Postage Stamp shall mean any label or stamp for denoting any rate of postage.
Letter Bag shall mean any bag, or box, or packet, or parcel, or other envelope or
covering in which correspondence is conveyed, whether it does or does not contain
correspondence.
Post Office shall mean any house, building, room, or place where correspondence
is received or delivered, or in which it is sorted, made up, or despatched .
Officer of the Post Office shall mean the Postmaster General, and every Postmaster,
Assistant Postmaster, Agent,officer, clerk, letter carrier, or any other person
employed in any business of the Post Office, whether employed by the Postmaster
General, or by any person under him, or on behalf of the Post Office.
Persons employed by or under the Post Office shall mean every person employed in
any business of the Post Office according to the interpretation given to Officer of the
Post Office.
Contract Packet shall mean any vessel for the conveyance of letter bags and cor
respondence under contract.
Master of a Vessel shall mean any person in charge of a vessel, whether commander,
mate, or other person .
Vessel shall mean any ship or other vessel not being a contract packet.
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