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Free postage for items relating to prisoners of war and civilian internees

Postal Services Regulations 2008

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—(1) Postal articles and postal financial services items addressed to or sent by prisoners of war, either directly or through the Information Bureaux and the Central Prisoners of War Information Agency of the Geneva Convention, shall be exempted from all postal charges.(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply to postal articles and postal financial services items originating in other countries and addressed to or sent by civilian internees either directly or through the Information Bureaux and the Central Prisoners of War Information Agency.(3) The Information Bureaux and the Central Prisoners of War Information Agency mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall enjoy exemption from postal charges in respect of postal articles and postal financial services items which concern the persons referred to in those paragraphs.(4) Postal articles addressed to or sent by prisoners of war in the manner referred to in paragraph (1) shall be admitted free of postage —(a)up to a weight of 5 kilogrammes; or(b)up to a weight of 10 kilogrammes in the case of —(i)postal articles whose contents cannot be split up; or (ii)postal articles addressed to a camp or the prisoners’ representatives at a camp ("hommes de confiance") for distribution to the prisoners.(5) No compensation either for loss, abstraction or damage shall be given in respect of such postal articles.(6) Notwithstanding anything in this regulation, the transmission by air mail of items relating to prisoners of war and civilian internees shall be subject to the prepayment of the appropriate air surcharge.(7) In this regulation —“civilian internee” is as defined by the Geneva Convention;“Geneva Convention” means the Geneva Convention of 12th August 1949 relating to the treatment of prisoners of war;“prisoners of war” include belligerents apprehended and interned in a neutral country.(8) This regulation shall only apply to the postal administration for Singapore.

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