Postal Services Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Postal Services and Systems
20. Official marks to be prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted
Feedback & supportIn any proceedings for the recovery of any postage or other fee or sum payable in respect of a postal article —
postage
“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;
the production of a postal article having thereon the official mark of a public postal licensee denoting that the article has been refused or that the addressee is dead or cannot be found is prima facie evidence of the fact so denoted; and
postal article
“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post but does not include any article or thing that the Postal Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;
the person from whom any postal article purports to come is, until the contrary is proved, deemed to be the sender thereof.
sender
“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;