Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General
62. Exclusion of liability of public postal licensee
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
A public postal licensee shall not be liable in respect of any injury, loss or damage suffered by any person by reason of —
public postal licensee
“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Authority under section 9;
any loss, misdelivery or delay of or damage to any postal article in the course of transmission by post;
any failure to provide or delay in providing any postal service or any equipment associated therewith or service ancillary thereto;
any failure, interruption, suspension or restriction of any postal service or service ancillary thereto or delay of, or fault in, any communication by post;
any loss of secrecy in communication arising from the use of any postal service; or
any wrong payment or delay in payment in connection with any remittance of money through the public postal licensee or any
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other irregularity in the document used in connection with the remittance, which is due to the act or default of another person, or an accident or some other cause beyond the control of the public postal licensee.
Notwithstanding subsection (1), in the event of the loss of or damage to any article enclosed in or forming part of a parcel or an insured postal article, or the loss of any registered postal article while in the custody of a public postal licensee, the licensee may pay an indemnity in accordance with the provisions of the Convention regulating the affairs of the
parcel
“parcel” means a postal article which is posted at a post office in Brunei Darussalam as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of this Act or is received at a post office in Brunei Darussalam by parcel post;
Universal Postal Union or any international agreement to which
Brunei Darussalam is a party.
Terms defined in s 2
equipment
Defined · s 2“equipment” includes any appliance, apparatus or accessory used or intended to be used for postal purposes;
parcel
Defined · s 2“parcel” means a postal article which is posted at a post office in Brunei Darussalam as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of this Act or is received at a post office in Brunei Darussalam by parcel post;
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 service
Defined · s 2“postal service” means any service for the conveyance of postal articles from one place to another by post, and includes the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sorting, sending, despatching and delivering such postal articles and any other services which relate to any of those services and is provided in conjunction with any of them;
public postal licensee
Defined · s 2“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Authority under section 9;