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Postal Services Act 1991 s 8

Postal Services Act 1991 s 8

This legislation has been repealed. Do not cite it as law in force.

Text recovered by OCR from a scanned copy — section numbers and wording may be wrong. Check the official PDF on lom.agc.gov.my before citing.

s 8 Exclusive privilege of the Government

(1) The Government shall have the exclusive privilege of— (a) conveying by post from one place to another whether by land, or by sea or by air, all letters; (b) porferting, seall the inpidenial aser yeliverifg alceins, except those letters falling within any of the following categories, that is to say: (A) trade announcements, circulars, printed extracts from newspapers, or advertisements, not addressed to any person; (B) letters delivered by an employee of the sender; (C) letters delivered by a messenger employed by the sender especially for the purpose, not being a person employed or engaged in the course of his business or employment in delivering or procuring the delivery of letters; (D) letters exceeding two kilograms in weight per letter; (E) letters concerning goods sent with the goods and delivered therewith; (F) letters carried to or from a post office; (G) letters carried in accordance with an agreement entered into by the licensee; (H) transfers between document exchanges; (1) letters carried to the premises of a provider of electronic mail services for the purposes of being transmitted as electronic mail, or letters carried from the premises of such a person after having been so transmitted; (J) letters carried and delivered by a private friend without hire, reward or other profit; (K) letters carried and delivered personally by the sender. (2) If any question arises as to whether or not any postal article is a letter within the meaning of this Act, the decision of the Commission thereon shall be final. • Exemption from liability for loss, misdelivery, delay or damage

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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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