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Notes on IPO Act 1898 for Inspector Posts Exam
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- Indian Post Office Act, 1898 contains 11 Chapters.
- It is Act 6 of 1898.
- Indian Post Office Act, 1898 came into force on 1st July, 1898.
- Section 4 – “Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the Government”.
- The expression “letters” includes Postcards.
- Section 6 – 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
- Section 7 [Power to fix rates of inland postage] in Indian Post Office Act, 1898 was last amended in the year 2017.
- Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix the rates of postage and other sums to be charged in respect of postal articles sent by the inland post under this Act, and may make rules as to the scale of weights, terms and conditions subject to which the rates so fixed shall be charged.
- The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare what packets may be sent by the inland post as book, pattern and sample packets within the meaning of this Act.
- Section 8 – Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases.
- Section 9 – Power to make rules as to registered newspapers.
- Every publication, consisting wholly or in great part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto or to other current topics, with or without advertisements, shall be deemed a newspaper.
- Registered newspapers conditions – that it is published in numbers at intervals of not more than thirty-one days, that it has a bona fide list of subscribers.
- An extra or supplement to a newspaper, bearing the same date as the newspaper and transmitted therewith, shall be deemed to be part of the newspaper.
- Section 10 – Power to declare rates of foreign postage is contained in which section of Indian Post Office Act, 1898.
- Section 11 – Liability for payment of postage.
- The addressee of a postal article on which postage or any other sum chargeable under this Act is due, shall be bound to pay the postage or sum so chargeable on his accepting delivery of the postal article, unless he forthwith returns it unopened.
- If any postal article on which postage or any other sum chargeable under this Act is due, is refused or returned as aforesaid, or if the addressee is dead or cannot be found, then the sender shall be bound to pay the postage or sum due thereon.
- If any person refuses to pay any postage or other sum due from him under this Act in respect of any postal article be recovered for the use of the Post Office from the person so refusing, as if it were a fine imposed under this Act, by any Magistrate having jurisdiction where that person may for the time being be resident.
- Post Master General may further direct that any other postal article, not being on Government service, addressed to that person shall be withheld from him until the sum so due is paid or recovered as aforesaid.
- When a postal article, on which any duty of customs is payable, has been received by post from any place beyond the limits of India, and the duly has been paid by the postal authorities at any customs-port or elsewhere, the amount of the duty shall be recoverable as if it were postage due under this Act.
- The person from whom the postal article purports to have come, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be the sender thereof.
- Section 15 – Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage.
- Provision of postage stamps and power to make rules as to them is discussed in Section 16.
- Section 17 – Postage stamps provided under section 16 shall be deemed to be stamps issued by Government for the purpose of revenue within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code.
- Central Government may, by rule, provide for the redelivery to the sender, without reference to the consent of the addressee and subject to such conditions (if any), as may be deemed fit, of any postal article in course of transmission by post.
- The sender shall not be entitled to recall a postal article in course of transmission by post.
- Section 19 – Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited.
- No person shall send by post any article or thing which is likely to injure postal articles in course of transmission by post or any officer of the Post Office.
- No person shall send by post (a) any ticket, proposal or advertisement relating to a lottery; or (b) any other matter descriptive of, or otherwise relating to, a lottery, which is calculated to act as an inducement to persons to participate in that lottery.
- “Lottery” does not include a lottery organised or authorised by the Government.
- Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited as per Section 20.
- As per Section 21 of IPO Act 1898, Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles is vested with the Central Government.
- As per Section 21 of IPO Act 1898,Postal articles shall be posted and delivered at such times and in such manner as the Director General may, by order, from time to time, appoint.
- Section 22 – Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles.
- Section 23 – Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act.
- Any officer in charge of a post office or authorised by the Post Master General in this behalf may open or unfasten any newspaper or any book, pattern or sample packet, in course of transmission by post, which he suspects to have been sent by post in contravention of the Act.
- any postal article sent containing anything injurious prohibited may, under the authority of the Post Master General, if necessary, be opened and destroyed.
- any postal article sent by post in contravention of the provisions of section 20 [Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited] may be disposed of in such manner as the Central Government may, by rule, direct.
- Where a postal article suspected to contain any goods of which the import by post or the transmission by post is prohibited or anything liable to duty, is received for delivery at a post office, the officer in charge of the post office shall? (i) send a notice in writing to the addressee inviting him to attend, either in person or by agent, within a specified time at the post office (ii) shall in the presence of the addressee or his agent, or if the addressee or his agent fails to attend as aforesaid then in his absence, open and examine the postal article.
- The Central Government may, by general or special order, empower any officer of the Post Office, specified in such order, to deliver postal article, received from beyond the limits of 2[India] and suspected to contain anything liable to duty, to such Customs authority as may be specified in the said order.
- Section 25 – Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post.
- Section 26 – Power to intercept postal articles for public good.
- Section 27 – Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps.
- Where a postal article is received by post from any place beyond the limits of India bearing a fictitious postage stamp or previously used stamps – Post office shall send a notice to the addressee inviting him to attend, either in person or by agent, within a specified time at the post office to receive delivery of the postal article.
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