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(4) Nothing in this Section shall affect the provisions of any written
law relating to deleterious drugs.
34. No person shall -send by post(1) Any indecent or obscene printing, painting, photograph, lithograph, engraving, book or card, or any other indecent or obscene article;
(2) Any postal article having thereon, or on the cover thereof, any
words marks or designs of an indecent, obscene, seditious, scurrilous,
threatening or grossly offensive character;
(3) Any postal article bearing any fictitious 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;
(4) Any other article which the Commission may by rule prohibit.
35.-(l) The Commission may make such rules as the Commission
shall think fit for preventing the sending and delivery of articles prohibited by section 33 or 34 and for detaining, disposing of, or destroying
any such postal article sent or tendered for transmission by post.
Transmittion by
anything
indecent,
etc., pro
hibited
Commistion to
make rules
dealing with
prohibited articles
36.-(1) Where any postal article sent by post is reasonably suspected by the
licensee to be sent in contravention of this Act or of any rules made
thereunder or of any other written law, the licensee shall im- mediately
inform and hand over such postal article to the Commission or any
authorised officer.
(2) On receiving the aforesaid information an authorised officer shall
detain such postal article for opening and examination,
37.-(l) Subject to the provisions of this Act, if any postal article
opened or examined under this Act is found to be in contravention, of
to have been posted in contravention, of this Act or of any rules made
thereunder or of any other written law, the Commission or authorised
officer may direct that the postal article be returned to the sender or
forwarded to its destination, in each case charged with such additional
postage (if any) as the Commission prescribes unless otherwise dealt
with under subsection (2), (3), (4) or (5) of this Section.
(2) Any postal article sent by post in contravention of section 33 may,
under the direction of the Commission or authorised officer, be forfeited
and destroyed.
(3) Any postal article sent by post in contravention of section 34 (1),
(2), (3) or (4) may, under the direction of the Commission or authorised
officer, be destroyed or returned to the sender.
(4) Any postal article sent by post in contravention of section 34 (3)
shall be dealt with as the Commission may direct.
(5) Notwithstanding any provisions in any written law to the contrary,
if any postal article opened under this Act is found to be in contravention
of the Customs Tariff Act 1976, it shall be handed over to the Customs
Department to be dealt with in accordance with that Act.
Obligation of
licenses to
inform the
commission
Disposal
of postal
articles
detained
under his
Act
Act No.
12
of 1976