Act:- 1. Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Paper 1(Inspector Of Post Exam)

 Some Key Point Of Indian Post Office Act 1898 

1	Name Of the Act	Indian Post Office Act 1898
2	Act No	Act No 06
3	Enacted On	22.03.1898
4	Commenced On	01.07.1898
5	Applicability	Whole India
6	Amendment  On	2017
	Amendment Commenced On	01.04.2017
7	No of Chapter	Eleven (XI)
8	No of the Section	77 ( Seventy Seven)
9	Schedule	Two (The Second Schedule Omitted)
10	Question asked In Last Year Exam	9 (average)

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Sl No	Chapter	Name Of the Chapter	Section No
1	Chapter I	PRELIMINARY	1 to 3
2	Chapter II	PRIVILEGE AND PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT	4 to 6
3	Chapter III	POSTAGE	7 to 15
4	Chapter IV	POSTAGE STAMPS	16 to 17
5	Chapter V	CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES	18 to 27
6	Chapter VI	REGISTRATION, INSURANCE AND VALUE-PAYABLE POST	28 to 36
7	Chapter VII	UNDELIVERED POSTAL ARTICLES	37 to 39
8	Chapter VIII	SHIP LETTERS	40 to 42
9	Chapter IX	MONEY ORDERS	43 to 48
10	Chapter X	PENLTIES AND PROCEDURE	49 to 72
11	Chapter XI	SUPPLEMENTAL	73 to 77

 

THE INDIAN POST OFFICE ACT, 1898

ACT NO. 6 OF 1898                                                                                                                                                                               22.03.1898

 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

CHAPTER I :- PRELIMINARY SECTIONS

1. Short title, extent, application and commencement.
2. Definitions. 3. Meanings of “in course of transmission by post” and “delivery”.

CHAPTER II:-  PRIVILEGE AND PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT

4. Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the Government.
5. Certain persons expressly forbidden to convey letters.
6. Exemption from liability for loss, misdelivery, delay or damage.

 CHAPTER III  :- POSTAGE

7. Power to fix rates of inland postage.
8. Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases.
9. Power to make rules as to registered newspapers.
10. Power to declare rates of foreign postage.
11. Liability for payment of postage.
12. Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles.
13. Customs duty paid by the post office to be recoverable as postage.
14. Post Office marks prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted.
15. Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage.

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 CHAPTER IV  :- POSTAGE STAMPS

16. Provision of postage stamps and power to make rules as to them.
17. Postage stamps to be deemed to be stamps for the purpose of revenue.

 CHAPTER V  :-  CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES

18. Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post.
19. Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited.

19A. Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorized lotteries prohibited. 20. Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited.

21. Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles.
22. Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles.
23. Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act.
24. Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty. 1. Subject to verification and confirmation by the Administrative Ministry. 2 SECTIONS

24A. Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority.

25. Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post.
26. Power to intercept postal articles for public good.
27. Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps. 27A. Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers.

27B. Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post.

27C. Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained.

27D. Jurisdiction barred.

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 CHAPTER VI  :- REGISTRATION, INSURANCE AND VALUE-PAYABLE POST

28. Registration of postal articles.
29. Power to make rules as to registration.
30. Insurance of postal articles.
31. Power to require insurance of postal articles.
32. Power to make rules as to insurance.
33. Liability in respect of postal articles insured.
34. Transmission by post of value-payable postal articles.
35. Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles.
36. Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries.

 CHAPTER VII  :-  UNDELIVERED POSTAL ARTICLES

37. Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles.
38. Disposal of undelivered postal articles at office of Post Master General.
39. Final disposal of undelivered postal articles.

 CHAPTER VIII  :- SHIP LETTERS

40. Duty of master of ship, departing from any port in India and not being a mail ship, to convey mail bags.
41. Duty of master of ship arriving at any port in India in respect of postal articles and mail bags on board.
42. Allowance of gratuities for conveyance of postal articles by ships other than mail ships.

 CHAPTER IX   :-  MONEY ORDERS

43. Power to maintain money order system and to make rules as to remittances thereby.
44. Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee.
45. Power to provide for the issue of postal orders.
46. Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries.
47. Recovery of money order paid to the wrong person.
48. Exemption from liability in respect of money orders.

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 CHAPTER X  :-  PENLTIES AND PROCEDURE (Offences by officers of the Post Office)

49. Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles. 3 SECTIONS
50. Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles.
51. Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver any postal articles.
52. Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away of postal articles.
53. Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles.
54. Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage.
55. Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering secreting or destroying Post Office documents.
56. Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles.
57. [Repealed.]. Other offences
58. Penalty for contravention of section 4.
59. Penalty for contravention of section 5.
60. Penalty for breach of rules under section 16.
61. Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20.
62. Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes.
63. Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box.
64. Penalty for making false declaration.
65. Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41.
66. Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port.
67. Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag.
68. Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags.
69. Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters. General
70. Penalty for abetting or attempting to commit, offences under Act.
71. Property in cases of offences to be laid in the Post Office.
72. Authority for prosecutions under certain sections of Act.

  CHAPTER XI  :-  SUPPLEMENTAL

73. Zamindari and other district posts.
74. General power to make rules and provisions as to rules under Act.
75. Delegation of powers, other than rule-making powers to Director General.
76. [Repealed.].
77. [Repealed.].

THE FIRST SCHEDULE. [THE SECOND SCHEDULE.] OMITTED.

Sl No	Nature of Offence	Penalty
1	Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles.	Fifty rupees.
2	Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles	Punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with both.
3	Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver any postal articles	Punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.
4	Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away of postal articles	Punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be punishable with fine
5	Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles.—	Punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine or with both:
6	Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage	Punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be punishable with fine
7	Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering secreting or destroying Post Office documents.	Punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be punishable with fine
8	Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles.—	Punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be punishable with fine.
9	Penalty for contravention of the provisions of section 5, carries, receives, tenders or delivers letters, or collects letters	Punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every such letter.
10	Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes.—	punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both
11	Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box.	Punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees
12	Penalty for making false declaration.	Punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, and, if the false declaration is made for the purpose of defrauding the Government, with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees
13	Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41	Punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
14	Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port.—	Punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every such postal article as aforesaid.
15	Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag.—	punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees:
16	Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags.—	Punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and shall also be punishable with fine.
17	Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters.	punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both:

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