In force2024 Revised EditionCurrent version · 2024 Revised EditionSee versions on Attorney General's Chambers(opens the publisher’s site)
Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Postal Services and Postal Systems
Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Postal Services and Postal Systems
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
In any proceedings for the recovery of any postage or other fee or sum payable in respect of a postal article —
postage
“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;
the production of a postal article having thereon the official mark of a public postal licensee denoting that the article has been refused or that the addressee is dead or cannot be found shall be prima facie evidence of the fact so denoted; and
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;
the person from whom any postal article purports to come, until the contrary is proved, is deemed to be the sender thereof.
sender
“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;
addressee
“addressee”, in relation to a postal article, means the person to whom the communication is addressed;
postage
“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;
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;
public postal licensee
“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Authority under section 9;
sender
“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;
Part
Part
Part
Part
Part