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Postal Services Act 1991 s 16

Postal Services Act 1991 s 16

This legislation has been repealed. Do not cite it as law in force.

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s 16 Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles

(1) The Minister may make rules as to the transmission by post of postal articles. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may- (a) provide for the performance of supplementary services in respect of transmission by post of postal articles; (b) prescribe the special charges or fees to be charged for the supplementary services provided; (c) require the owner or occupier of any premises to provide, on or contiguous to those premises or the compound thereof, boxes of such description as may be specified for the receipt of postal articles bearing the address of those premises; (d) prohibit the transmission by post of postal articles not specified in section 17 or 18 or lay down special conditions on which articles, not specified in section 17 or 18, may be transmitted by post; (e) provide for the payment of compensation for the loss or damage in course of transmission by post of postal articles, and the conditions under which such compensation may be paid and the limit of the amount of such compensation. (3) For the purposes of this section, supplementary services include the registration, insurance and storage of postal articles, Poste Restante and any other form of supplementary service. Transmission by post of anything injurious, etc., prohibited

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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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