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