Indian Post Office Act, 1898

The Indian Post Office Act, 1898

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Act ID:	189806
Act Number:	06
Enactment Date:	1898-03-22
Act Year:	1898
Short Title:	The Indian Post Office Act, 1898
Long Title:	An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Post Offices in India.
Ministry:	Ministry of Communications
Department:	Department of Posts
Enforcement Date:	01-07-1898
Last Updated:	14-01-2019


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CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

CHAPER II

PRIVILEGE AND PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER III

POSTAGE

CHAPTER IV

POSTAGE STAMPS

CHAPTER V

CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES

CHAPTER VI

REGISTRATION, INSURANCE AND VALUE-PAYABLE POST

CHAPTER VII

UNDELIVERED POSTAL ARTICLES

CHAPTER VIII

SHIP LETTERS

CHAPTER IX

MONEY ORDERS

CHAPTER X

PENLTIES AND PROCEDURE

CHAPTER XI

SUPPLEMENTAL


Section 1. Short title, extent, application and commencement. Show Related Subordinates
Section 2. Definitions.
Section 3. Meanings of “in course of transmission by post” and “delivery”. Show Related Subordinates
Section 4. Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the Government.
Section 5. Certain persons expressly forbidden to convey letters. Show Related Subordinates
Section 6. Exemption from liability for loss, misdelivery, delay or damage.
Section 7. Power to fix rates of inland postage. Show Related Subordinates
Section 8. Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases. Show Related Subordinates
Section 9. Power to make rules as to registered newspapers. Show Related Subordinates
Section 10. Power to declare rates of foreign postage. Show Related Subordinates
Section 11. Liability for payment of postage. Show Related Subordinates
Section 12. Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 13. Customs duty paid by the post office to be recoverable as postage. Show Related Subordinates
Section 14. Post Office marks prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted. Show Related Subordinates
Section 15. Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage. Show Related Subordinates
Section 16. Provision of postage stamps and power to make rules as to them. Show Related Subordinates
Section 17. Postage stamps to be deemed to be stamps for the purpose of revenue. Show Related Subordinates
Section 18. Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post. Show Related Subordinates
Section 19. Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited. Show Related Subordinates
Section 19A. Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited. Show Related Subordinates
Section 20. Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited. Show Related Subordinates
Section 21. Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 22. Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 23. Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act. Show Related Subordinates
Section 24. Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty. Show Related Subordinates
Section 24A. Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority. Show Related Subordinates
Section 25. Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post. Show Related Subordinates
Section 26. Power to intercept postal articles for public good. Show Related Subordinates
Section 27. Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps. Show Related Subordinates
Section 27A. Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers. Show Related Subordinates
Section 27B. Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post. Show Related Subordinates
Section 27C. Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained. Show Related Subordinates
Section 27D. Jurisdiction barred. Show Related Subordinates
Section 28. Registration of postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 29. Power to make rules as to registration. Show Related Subordinates
Section 30. Insurance of postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 31. Power to require insurance of postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 32. Power to make rules as to insurance. Show Related Subordinates
Section 33. Liability in respect of postal articles insured. Show Related Subordinates
Section 34. Transmission by post of value-payable postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 35. Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 36. Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries. Show Related Subordinates
Section 37. Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 38. Disposal of undelivered postal articles at office of Post Master General. Show Related Subordinates
Section 39. Final disposal of undelivered postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 40. Duty of master of ship, departing from any port in India and not being a mail ship, to convey mail bags. Show Related Subordinates
Section 41. Duty of master of ship arriving at any port in India in respect of postal articles and mail bags on board. Show Related Subordinates
Section 42. Allowance of gratuities for conveyance of postal articles by ships other than mail ships. Show Related Subordinates
Section 43. Power to maintain money order system and to make rules as to remittances thereby. Show Related Subordinates
Section 44. Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee. Show Related Subordinates
Section 45. Power to provide for the issue of postal orders. Show Related Subordinates
Section 46. Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries. Show Related Subordinates
Section 47. Recovery of money order paid to the wrong person. Show Related Subordinates
Section 48. Exemption from liability in respect of money orders. Show Related Subordinates
Section 49. Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 50. Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 51. Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver any postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 52. Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away of postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 53. Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 54. Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage. Show Related Subordinates
Section 55. Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering secreting or destroying Post Office documents. Show Related Subordinates
Section 56. Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles. Show Related Subordinates
Section 57. [Repealed.]. Show Related Subordinates
Section 58. Penalty for contravention of section 4. Show Related Subordinates
Section 59. Penalty for contravention of section 5. Show Related Subordinates
Section 60. Penalty for breach of rules under section 16. Show Related Subordinates
Section 61. Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20. Show Related Subordinates
Section 62. Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes. Show Related Subordinates
Section 63. Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box. Show Related Subordinates
Section 64. Penalty for making false declaration. Show Related Subordinates
Section 65. Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41. Show Related Subordinates
Section 66. Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port. Show Related Subordinates
Section 67. Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag. Show Related Subordinates
Section 68. Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags. Show Related Subordinates
Section 69. Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters. Show Related Subordinates
Section 70. Penalty for abetting or attempting to commit, offences under Act. Show Related Subordinates
Section 71. Property in cases of offences to be laid in the Post Office. Show Related Subordinates
Section 72. Authority for prosecutions under certain sections of Act. Show Related Subordinates
Section 73. Zamindari and other district posts.
Section 74. General power to make rules and provisions as to rules under Act. Show Related Subordinates
Section 75. Delegation of powers, other than rule-making powers to Director General. Show Related Subordinates
Section 76. [Repealed.].
Section 77. [Repealed.].

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