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INTRODUCTION
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Short title, extent, application and commencement
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Definitions
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Meanings of "in course of transmission by post" and "delivery"
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Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the Government
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Certain persons expressly forbidden to convey letters
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Exemption from liability for loss, misdelivery, delay or damage
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Power to fix rates of inland postage
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Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases
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Power to make rules as to registered newspapers
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Power to declare rates of foreign postage
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Liability for payment of postage
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Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles
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Customs duty paid by the post office to be recoverable as postage
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Post Office marks prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted
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Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage
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Provision of postage stamps and power to make rules as to them
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Postage stamps to be deemed to be stamps for the purpose of revenue
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Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post
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Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited
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1 Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorised lotteries prohibited
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Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited
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Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles
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Power to postpone despatch or delivery of certain postal articles
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Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act
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Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty
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24A |
1 Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority
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Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post
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Power to intercept postal articles for public good
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Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps
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27A |
1 Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers
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27B |
Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post
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27C |
Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained
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27D |
Jurisdiction barred
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Registration of postal articles
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Power to make rules as to registration
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Insurance of postal articles
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Power to require insurance of postal articles
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Power to make rules as to insurance
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Liability in respect of postal articles insured
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Transmission by post of value-payable postal articles
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Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles
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Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries
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. Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles
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Disposal of undelivered postal articles at office of Post Master General
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39 |
Final disposal of undelivered postal articles
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Duty of master of ship, departing from any port in India and not being a mail ship, to convey mail bags
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Duty of master of ship arriving at any port in India in respect of postal articles and mail bags on board
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Allowance of gratuities for conveyance of postal articles by ships other than mail ships
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Power to maintain money order system and (o make rules as to remittances thereby
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Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee
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Power to provide for the issue of postal orders
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Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries
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Recovery of money order paid to the wrong person
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Exemption from liability in respect of money orders
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Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles
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Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duly, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles
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Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver any postal articles
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Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away of postal articles
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Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles
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Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage
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Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering secreting or destroying Post Office documents
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Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles
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Punishment of offences committed in a tribal area, Acceding State or other Indian State
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Penalty for contravention of section 4
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Penalty for contravention of section 5
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Penalty for breach of rules under section 16
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Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20
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Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes
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Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box
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Penalty for making false declaration
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Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41
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Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port
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Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag
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Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags
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Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters
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Penalty for abetting or attempting to commit, offences under Act
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Property in cases of offences to be laid in the Post Office
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Authority for prosecutions under certain sections of Act
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Zamindari and other district posts
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General power to make rules and provisions as to rules under Act
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Delegation of powers, other than rule-making powers to Director General
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Repeal
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Saving
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SCHEDULE I
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SCHEDULE II
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