Postal Services Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Postal Services and Systems
23. Power to deal with postal articles sent in contravention of this Act
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Any postal article sent by post which is suspected to be sent in contravention of this Act or any regulations made under this Act may be detained and opened by a public postal licensee or otherwise dealt with in accordance with the directions of the Postal Authority.
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 detention of a postal article under subsection (1) does not exempt the sender from any proceedings which might have been taken if the postal article had been delivered in due course of post.
post
“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee;
Any postal article sent in contravention of this Act or any regulations made under this Act must be destroyed, returned to the sender or dealt with in any other manner that the Postal Authority may direct.
sender
“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;
The Postal Authority may, by written order, direct a postal licensee to detain and open all or any postal articles sent by any person or persons named in the order who are reasonably suspected of sending postal articles by post in contravention of this Act.
Upon receipt of an order under subsection (4), a postal licensee must detain and open the postal article or articles specified in the order, and any postal article found to have been sent in contravention of this Act must be dealt with in accordance with subsection (3).
postal licensee
“postal licensee” means a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 6;