PROHIBITIONS
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PROHIBITED ARTICLES
Prohibited articles, if tendered for transmission, will be refused or, if detected in transit, detained. They will be dealt with in such a manner as the Post Office thinks fit, and the sender is in some cases liable to prosecution.
LETTER POST
It is prohibited to send by post:
(c) Certain advertisements,
tickets and circulars
(b) Dangerous, offensive and
indecent articles
1. Betting advertisements if relating to an illegal
business.
2. Fortune-telling advertisements.
3. Lottery tickets or advertisements except those relating to lotteries directed by the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
4. Moneylenders' circulars if sent unsolicited.
5.
Dangerous articles, including explosive, certain inflammable, corrosive, noxious or deleterious, or otherwise harmful substances and sharp instru- ments not properly protected; including all of those items which are defined under the Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations, 1959. Packing and limitations laid down in the Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations must be observed. Matches. Christmas crackers, however, are admitted.
Radio-active materials, whether solid, liquid or gaseous, manufactured items such as luminous dials, luminous compounds, ores and residues, which have any significant alpha, beta, gamma or neutron radiation. Exceptionally, small quantities of such materials are admitted if suitably packed, and provided that when made up for the post the radiation measured at the outside surface of a package does not exceed 10 millirontgen per 24 hours.
Fish scrap or fishmeal except when wet with more than twelve per cent of water shall not be conveyed or stored except when contained in:--- (a) a hermetically sealed metal lined box; or (b) an airtight metal container.
6. Celluloid, liquid and unseasoned raw (that is, containing volatile solvent) sometimes called xylonite cake.
7. Celluloid, seasoned raw (that is, free from all volatile solvent), and articles of celluloid not packed in the prescribed manner.
8. Films, cinematograph and photographic, not
packed in the prescribed manner,
9. Paints, varnishes, enamels and kindred substances which have a flashpoint below 150°F. Those with a flashpoint between 90°F. and 150°F. are, how- ever, admitted exceptionally by sample post subject to compliance with the special conditions as to packing and so on. In general, the transmission by post of substances with flashpoints below 90°F. is totally prohibited. An exception is however made in the case of lighters containing Butane Gas and refills for such lighters, provided that:
(1) The packing conforms to a standard approved
by the Post Office, and
(2) The total amount of butane in any postal
packet does not exceed 180 grammes.
(See regulations under Packing and Make-up).
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