Singapore legislation
Regulation 8
Regulation 8
Postage evasion of correspondence in another country for delivery by postal administration for Singapore
Subregulation 1
This regulation shall apply to every postal article that —
is posted outside Singapore by or on behalf of a person residing in Singapore; and
is addressed to the addressee at an address in Singapore.
Subregulation 2
Whenever the postal administration for Singapore —
discovers a postal article to which this regulation applies in the course of post, and the sum equivalent in Singapore currency at par to the postage paid on the postal article is less than the postage which would have been payable on such a postal article if it had been posted in Singapore; and
has reasonable cause to believe that the postal article was posted with a view to benefiting from rates of postage,the postal administration for Singapore may cause the postal article to be opened and examined by its employee to determine whether the postal article was so posted.
Subregulation 3
Where the contents of a postal article to which this regulation applies have been examined under paragraph (2) and it is found not to be an article posted as described in that paragraph, the employee of the postal administration for Singapore must close the postal article up and return it to the normal course of carriage.
Subregulation 4
Whenever the postal administration for Singapore —
discovers a postal article to which this regulation applies in the course of post, and the sum equivalent in Singapore currency at par to the postage paid on the postal article is less than the postage which would have been payable on such a postal article if it had been posted in Singapore; and
is satisfied that the postal article was so posted with a view to benefiting from rates of postage,the postal administration for Singapore may —
claim the postage which would have been payable on such postal article if it had been posted in Singapore from —
the person from whom such postal article purports to come or by whom or on whose behalf it purports to have been sent (referred to in this regulation as the sender); or
the foreign postal administration for the place at which such postal article was posted if the postal administration for Singapore is unable to recover the postage from the sender; or
if both the sender and the foreign postal administration concerned do not pay the postage which would have been payable on the postal article if it had been posted in Singapore —
return the postal article to the country in which it was posted upon payment of the redirection cost by the sender or the foreign postal administration concerned; or
dispose of the postal article under regulation 14 as if the postal article were an undelivered postal article to which regulation 12 or 13 applies.
Subregulation 5
Whenever the postal administration for Singapore proposes to claim under paragraph (4) any sum in relation to a postal article to which this regulation applies, the postal administration for Singapore may retain the postal article until such sum has been paid to or recovered by it.