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Postal Services Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3A · Public Parcel Lockers

23R. Power of Postal Authority to deal with parcels, etc., in public parcel lockers

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2021.

(1)

Where the Postal Authority knows or has reason to suspect that any parcel or other article or thing is or may be the subject of, or is or may have been used in, the commission of an offence under this Act or any regulations made under this Act, the Postal Authority may, by written order, direct the public parcel locker network operator —

(a)

to open and search any public parcel locker; and

(b)

to detain and open any parcel or other article or thing that is placed or found in the public parcel locker.

(2)

Where a person is reasonably suspected of having committed an offence under this Act or any regulations made under this Act, the Postal Authority may, by written order, direct the public parcel locker network operator —

(a)

to do all of the following:

(i)

open and search any public parcel locker;

(ii)

detain and open any parcel or other article or thing placed or believed to have been placed in the public parcel locker by that person; or

(b)

to prevent that person from placing any parcel or other article or thing in any public parcel locker.

(3)

The public parcel locker network operator must, upon receiving a written order made under subsection (2), comply with the written order.

(4)

A parcel, an article or a thing that is detained and opened under subsection (1) or (2)(a) must be destroyed, returned to the sender or dealt with in any other manner as the Postal Authority may direct.