Postal Services Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Postal Services and Systems
19. Postage stamps
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A person (other than the Postal Authority or a specified public postal licensee) must not provide or cause to be provided postage stamps that bear the word “Singapore” in any language.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
Any postage stamp provided under subsection (1) may be of such kind and may denote such values as the Postal Authority or specified public postal licensee may determine.
postage stamp
“postage stamp” means any label or stamp for denoting any postage or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and includes any adhesive postage stamp or stamp printed, impressed or otherwise indicated on a postal article, whether the postage stamp is issued under this Act or by the government of any other country;
Any postage stamp provided under this section must be used for the prepayment of any postage or other sum chargeable under this Act in respect of any postal article to be conveyed and delivered by or through the Postal Authority or the specified public postal licensee, except where the Postal Authority or specified public postal licensee determines that prepayment may be made in some other manner.
postage
“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;
The design of every postage stamp provided by a specified public postal licensee under this section must be approved by the Postal Authority.
public postal licensee
“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Postal Authority under section 7;
All philatelic archival materials produced by a specified public postal licensee belong to the Government, and all philatelic archival materials must be kept in such custody as the Government directs.
In subsection (6), “philatelic archival materials” includes —
philatelic stamps;
artworks, proofs, progressive sheets, printed sheets and printing plates of philatelic stamps; and
date stamps, slogan dies and other artifacts used in connection with the production of philatelic stamps.
The Minister may, after consulting the Postal Authority, by order in the Gazette, delete, vary or add to the items of “philatelic archival materials” specified in subsection (7).
In this section, “specified public postal licensee” means a public postal licensee that is authorised by the licence granted under section 6 to provide postage stamps that bear the word “Singapore” in any language.