Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Postal Services and Postal Systems
16. Examination of postal articles
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
All postal articles received from outside Brunei Darussalam may be examined while in the custody of a postal licensee by any proper officer of customs, and may be opened by an officer or employee of the postal licensee in the circumstances under subsection (2) in the presence of any proper officer of customs for the purpose of such examination.
postal licensee
“postal licensee” means a person to whom a postal licence has been granted under section 8;
Subject to subsection (1), a licensee may open a postal article in the following circumstances —
postal article
“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post, but does not include such article or thing as the Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;
to secure the contents or to ascertain the condition of the contents of damaged postal articles;
to determine the addressee or sender of an undeliverable postal article in accordance with the rules made by the Authority;
if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that there is a physical danger to persons or property;
if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that there is a health risk to persons;
if it has the consent of the addressee or sender to do so;
by an order of court; or
as required by the relevant authorities or any other written law.
In this section, “proper officer of customs” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Customs Order, 2006 (S 39/2006).
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Terms defined in s 2
addressee
Defined · s 2“addressee”, in relation to a postal article, means the person to whom the communication is addressed;
Authority
Defined · s 2“Authority” means the Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam established by section 3 of the Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam Order, 2001;
postal article
Defined · s 2“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post, but does not include such article or thing as the Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;
postal licensee
Defined · s 2“postal licensee” means a person to whom a postal licence has been granted under section 8;
sender
Defined · s 2“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;
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