No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
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(2) Except as otherwise provided by regulations made under
this Act and subject to the condition as may be prescribed, no person
shall send by post any explosive, inflammable, dangerous, filthy,
noxious or deleterious substance, any sharp instrument not properly
protected, or any living creature which is either noxious or likely to
injure any person or any postal article in course of transmission by
post.
(3) No person shall send by post opium, morphine, cocaine or
any narcotic except under such rules as the Authority may make in
this behalf.
(4) Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of any
written law relating to deleterious drugs.
Prohibition
of
transmission
by post of
anything
indecent
53. A person shall not send by post any (a) indecent or obscene printing, painting, photograph,
lithograph, engraving, book or card, or any other
indecent or obscene article;
(b)
(c)
(d)
Authority to
make rules
dealing with
prohibited
articles
postal article having or on the cover, have any words
marks or designs of any indecent, obscene, seditious,
scurrilous, threatening or grossly offensive character;
postal article bearing any fictions stamp or purporting
to be prepaid with any postage stamp which has
previously been used to prepay any other postal
article or which has been previously used in payment
of any stamp duty; or
other article which the Authority may prohibit.
54. The Authority may make rules for preventing the sending
and delivery of articles prohibited under this Act and detaining,
disposing of, or destroying any such postal article sent or tendered
for transmission by post.