Rev. 2011]
Kenya Information and Communications
CAP. 411A
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postal systems and services.
48. (1) The Commission shall grant to the public postal licensee Exclusive right to
the exclusive right to provide private letter boxes or bags and postal provide certain postal
services.
services except in relation to—
(a) letters weighing more than three hundred and fifty grams;
(b) trade announcements, circulars, printed extracts from
newspapers or advertisements not addressed to any particular
person;
(c) letters delivered by an employee of the sender;
(d) 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;
(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 with
the public postal licensee;
(h) transfers between document exchanges;
(i) 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 transmitted;
(j) letters carried privately and delivered without hire, reward
or other profit;
(k) letters carried and delivered personally by the sender; and
(l) letters, postcards, aerogrammes of three hundred and fifty
grams or less in weight, if a charge of at least five times the
basic charge of the public postal licensee letter rate for that
class of item is made in respect of receiving, collecting,
sending, despatching and delivery.
(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.