No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
41
(2) Correspondences and postal items which have been
posted shall remain the property of the sender until final delivery to
the addressee or to the displayed address, except when they are
apprehended by a competent authority;
(3) A postal article shall be in the course of transmission by
post from the time of its being posted with or handled over to the
postal licensee to the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or
its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of in
accordance with this Act.
Delivery of
correspondence and
postal item
45. For the purposes of this Act a postal article shall be
deemed to be delivered if it is delivered into the private letter box or
private bag of the addressee or is left at the house or office of the
addressee, or with the addressee, or with his employee, or agent, or
other person authorized to receive it and, where the addressee is a
guest or is resident at a hotel, hostel or lodging of a similar nature, if
it is left with the proprietor or manager thereof or with his agent.
Prohibitions
in the Postal
Services
46.(1) A postal licensee may refuse to accept
correspondence or a postal item that does not fulfill the
requirements established in this Act or by regulations made under it
with regard to shape, weight, value, dimensions, safety, packaging,
franking, registration or address, including the correct postcode.
(2) The public postal licensee shall not receive, distribute
or deliver anywhere in the United Republic or dispatch abroad any
of the following articles
(a)
correspondence or a postal item whose weight
dimension, volume, shape, address franking or
packaging is in breach of the regulations or the
international conventions and accords approved by
the United Republic; or
(b)
an explosive, fetid, corrosive, radioactive, perishable,
with other characteristic that may constitute a hazard
to damage other correspondence, postal items or