Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Postal Services and Postal Systems
24. Power to deal with postal articles sent in contravention of this Act
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any postal article sent by post which is suspected to be sent in contravention of this Act or any regulations made thereunder may be detained and opened by a public postal licensee or otherwise dealt with in accordance with the directions of the Authority.
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 detention of a postal article under subsection (1) shall not exempt the sender from any proceedings which might have been taken if the postal article had been delivered in due course of post.
post
“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee;
Any postal article sent in contravention of this Act or any regulations made thereunder shall be destroyed, returned to the sender or dealt with in such other manner as the Authority may direct.
sender
“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;
The Authority may, by order in writing, direct a postal licensee to detain and open all or any postal article sent by any person or persons named
Authority
“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 Services in the order who are reasonably suspected of sending postal articles by post in contravention of this Act.
On receipt of an order under subsection (4), a postal licensee shall detain and open the postal article or articles specified in the order, and any postal article found to have been sent in contravention of this Act shall be dealt with in accordance with subsection (3).
postal licensee
“postal licensee” means a person to whom a postal licence has been granted under section 8;
Terms defined in s 2
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;
post
Defined · s 2“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee;
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;
public postal licensee
Defined · s 2“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Authority under section 9;
sender
Defined · s 2“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;
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