Section 22
Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles.
The Indian Post Office Act, 1898
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Post Offices in India.
(1) Where the dispatch or
delivery from a post office of letters would be delayed by the dispatch or delivery therefrom at the same
time of book, pattern or sample packets and parcels, or any of them, such packets or parcels, or any of
them, may, subject to such rules as the Central Government may make in this behalf, be detained in the
Post Office so long as may be necessary.
(2) Where separate parcel posts are established, parcels may be forwarded and conveyed by them, being detained, if necessary, in the Post Office for that purpose.
(2) Where separate parcel posts are established, parcels may be forwarded and conveyed by them, being detained, if necessary, in the Post Office for that purpose.