Postal Services Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Exclusive Privilege and Licensing Etc. of Postal Services
7. Exceptions to section 6
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The privilege conferred by section 6 shall not be infringed by —
postal articles not exceeding three in number sent by a person for delivery by the person to another without hire, reward or other profit for receiving, carrying or delivering the postal articles;
any postal article solely concerning the affairs of either correspondent by an employee of either correspondent;
the conveyance of any letter solely concerning any goods or other property which is to be delivered with the letter, without hire, reward or other profit for receiving, carrying or delivering the postal article, if the letter is open to inspection and has thereon the words
“Consignee’s letter” or other words to the same effect; and
the conveyance from one place to another of —
any postal article which weighs more than 20 kilograms;
any postal article by direct mail;
any postal article by the sender personally; or
any document in respect of which a method of service other than post is required or authorised by written law.
Postal Services
The Minister may, after consulting the Authority, by order published in the Gazette, delete, vary or add to the exceptions in subsection (1).
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;
correspondent
Defined · s 2“correspondent”, in relation to a postal article, means the sender or person to whom it is addressed;
direct mail
Defined · s 2“direct mail” means a letter consisting solely of advertising, marketing or publicity material and comprising an identical message (except for the addressee’s name, address and identifying number and other modifications which do not alter the nature of the message) which is sent to more than one addressee, to be conveyed and delivered at the address indicated by the sender on the letter itself or on its wrapping;
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;
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;
sender
Defined · s 2“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;
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