Section 6:
Exemption from liability for loss, misdelivery, delay or damage.
The 10[Government] shall not
incur any liability by reason of the loss, misdelivery or delay of, or damage to, any postal article in course
of transmission by post, except in so far as such liability may in express terms by undertaken by the
Central Government as hereinafter provided; and no officer of the Post Office shall incur any liability by
reason of any such loss, misdelivery, delay or damage, unless he has caused the same fraudulently or by
his willful act or default.
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Crown" which was subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "the Secretary of State for India in Council".