Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General
66. Regulations
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Minister may, with the consent of His Majesty the Sultan and
Yang Di-Pertuan, make regulations for any purpose for which regulations are required to be made under this Act and generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may, with the consent of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters —
the classes and the conditions for the grant of postal licences by the Authority;
the acceptance, transmission by post, detention and disposal of postal articles;
the supply, sale and use of postage stamps;
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the import, manufacture, sale, supply and use of franking machines;
the limit of amount of money that may be remitted through a public postal licensee and the manner and conditions under which such money may be remitted;
the articles or things which may not be transmitted by post;
the types of articles not to be treated as postal articles;
the manner of receiving, delivering, collecting and distributing mail bags and postal articles, including facilitating access for postal licensees to letter boxes;
the conditions and restrictions for the payment of indemnity for the loss of or damage to postal articles where indemnity is payable under this Act;
the registration of postal articles and the cases where insurance of postal articles may be required;
the fees and charges to be paid in respect of any matter or anything done, or any services rendered, by the Authority under or by virtue of this Act, including a code of practice or standard of performance;
the waiver or refund, in whole or in part, by authorised officers of the Authority of any such fees in the circumstances of any particular case;
the interest (such interest, if unpaid, to constitute a debt due to the Authority and be recoverable as such) to be paid for late payment of any fees or charges prescribed under this Act.
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;
code of practice
Defined · s 2“code of practice” means a code of practice issued or approved under section 25;
letter
Defined · s 2“letter” means any communication in written form on any kind of physical medium to be conveyed and delivered (otherwise than electronically) to a particular addressee or address indicated by the sender on the letter itself or on its wrapping, but does not include any book, catalogue, newspaper or periodical.
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;
postage
Defined · s 2“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;
public postal licensee
Defined · s 2“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Authority under section 9;
standard of performance
Defined · s 2“standard of performance” means a standard of performance issued or approved under section 25;