Sections | Indian Post Office Act, 1898 |
| Preamble |
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| CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY |
1. | Short title, extent, application and commencement |
2. | Definitions |
3. | Meanings of "in course of transmission by post" and "delivery" |
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| CHAPTER II: PRIVILEGE AND PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT |
4. | Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the Government |
5. | Certain persons expressly forbidden to convey letters |
6. | Exemption from liability for loss, mis-delivery, delay or damage |
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| CHAPTER III: POSTAGE |
7. | Power to fix rates of inland postage |
8. | Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases |
9. | Power to make rules as to registered newspapers |
10. | Power to declare rates of foreign postage |
11. | Liability for payment of postage |
12. | Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles |
13. | Customs duty paid by the Post Office to be recoverable as postage |
14. | Post office marks Prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted |
15. | Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage |
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| CHAPTER IV: POSTAGE STAMPS |
16. | Provision of postage stamps and power to make rules as to them |
17. | Postage stamps to be deemed to be stamps for the purpose of revenue |
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| CHAPTER V: CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES |
18. | Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post |
19. | Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited |
19A. | Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited |
20. | Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited |
21. | Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles |
22. | Power to postpone despatch or delivery of certain postal articles |
23. | Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act |
24. | Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty |
24A. | Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority |
25. | Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post |
26. | Power to intercept postal articles for public good |
27. | Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps |
27A. | Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers |
27B. | Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post |
27C. | Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained |
27D. | Jurisdiction barred |
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| CHAPTER VI: REGISTRATION, INSURANCE AND VALUE-PAYABLE POST |
28. | Registration of postal articles |
29. | Power to make rules as to registration |
30. | Insurance of postal articles |
31. | Power to require insurance of postal articles |
32. | Power to make rules as to insurance |
33. | Liability in respect of postal articles insured |
34. | Transmission by post of value-payable postal articles |
35. | Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles |
36. | Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries |
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| CHAPTER VII: UNDELIVERED POSTAL ARTICLES |
37. | Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles |
38. | Disposal of undelivered postal articles at office of Post Master General |
39. | Final disposal of undelivered postal articles |
40. | Duty of master of ship, departing from any port in India and not being a mail ship, to convey mail bags |
41. | Duty of master of ship arriving at any port in India in respect of postal articles and mail bags on board |
42. | Allowance of gratuities for conveyance of postal articles by ships other than mail ships |
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| CHAPTER IX: MONEY ORDERS |
43. | Power to maintain money order system and to make rules as to remittances thereby |
44. | Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee |
45. | Power to provide for the issue of postal orders |
46. | Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries |
47. | Recovery of money order paid to the wrong person |
48. | Exemption from liability in respect of money orders |
49. | Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles |
50. | Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles |
51. | Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver postal articles |
52. | Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away, of postal articles |
53. | Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles |
54. | Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage |
55. | Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering, secreting or destroying Post Office documents |
56. | Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles |
57. | Punishment of offences committed in a tribal area, Acceding State or other Indian State- Repealed by the Finance Act, 1950 |
58. | Penalty for contravention of section 4 |
59. | Penalty for contravention of section 5 |
60. | Penalty for breach of rules under section 16 |
61. | Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20 |
62. | Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes |
63. | Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter box |
64. | Penalty for making false declaration |
65. | Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41 |
66. | Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port |
67. | Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag |
68. | Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags |
69. | Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters |
70. | Penalty for abetting, or attempting to commit, offences under Act |
71. | Property in cases of offences to be laid in the Post Office |
72. | Authority for prosecutions under certain sections of Act |
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| CHAPTER XI: SUPPLEMENTAL |
73. | Zamindari and other district posts |
74. | General poswer to make rules and provisions as to rules under Act |
75. | Delegation of powers, other than rule-making powers, to Director General |
76. | Repeal- Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 |
77. | Saving- Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1952 |
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| THE FIRST SCHEDULE |