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• Post Office 
• PART I Preliminary
  • 1 Short title
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Functions and Privileges of Postmaster-General
  • 3 Special powers of Postmaster-General
  • 4 Exclusive privilege of Postmaster-General
• PART III Postage
  • 5 Payment of postage
  • 6 Exemption from postage
  • 7 Unpaid or insufficiently prepaid postal articles
  • 8 Recovery of postage
  • 9 Provision of stamps, stamped envelopes etc.
• PART IV Revenue
  • 10 Disposal of revenue
• PART V Transmission of money by post
  • 11 Transmission of money by post
• PART VI Universal Postal Union
  • 12 Arrangements for maintaining membership in Universal Postal Union
• PART VII Conditions of Transit
  • 13 Liability for loss, etc. of postal articles
  • 14 Redelivery to sender of postal article
  • 15 Power to detain postal articles
  • 16 Interception of postal articles in public emergency
  • 17 Power to detain and open mail bags
  • 18 Power to open certain postal packets
  • 19 Power to withdraw prohibited articles from transmission
  • 20 Application of Customs Act to postal articles
  • 21 Postal articles not to be opened or returned
  • 22 Conveyance of mail by ships and aircraft outward bound
  • 23 Conveyance of mail by ships and aircraft inward bound
  • 24 Ship owner’s letters
  • 25 Retention of postal articles after delivery of part thereof to Post Office
  • 26 Remuneration of owners and masters or commanders of ships or aircraft
  • 27 Penalty for opening of mail bag by master or commander of ship or aircraft
  • 28 Penalty for delay or other delinquencies by air and sea carriers
  • 29 Power to receive on board postal articles
• PART VIII General Offences
  • 30 Repealed by 1992-29....
  • 31 Unlawfully taking away or opening mail bag
  • 32 Repealed by 1992-29....
  • 33 Fraudulent retention of mail bag or postal packet
  • 34 Criminal diversion of letters from addressee
  • 35 Secreting etc., by officer of Post Office of postal packet
  • 36 Fraud in connection with receipt and delivery of postal articles
  • 37 Delaying postal packets
  • 38 Carelessness, negligence, or misconduct in carrying or delivering mail bags, postal packets, etc.
  • 39 Prohibition of placing injurious substances in or against Post Office letter box
  • 40 Prohibition of affixing placards, notices, etc. on Post Office letter boxes
  • 41 Prohibition of imitation of Post Office stamps, envelopes, forms and marks
  • 42 Persons having in their possession paper provided for postage covers etc. before being duly stamped
  • 43 Prohibition of fictitious stamps
  • 44 Prohibition of false notice as to reception of letters etc.
  • 45 Obstruction and molestation of officers of the Post Office
  • 46 Provision against hawking etc. on post office premises
  • 47 Abettors in indictable and summary offences
  • 48 Contravention of exclusive privilege of Postmaster-General
  • 49 Prohibition of sending
  • 50 Penalty for disclosing or delaying messages to be sent by telegram
  • 51 Fraudulently removing stamps
  • 52 Provisions as to form of proceedings
  • 53 Evidence of thing being postal packet
  • 54 Prosecution of offence
  • 55 Offences also punishable at common law or under other enactment
  • 56 Legal designation of Post Office letter box
• PART IX Miscellaneous
  • 57 Discontinuation of stamps, dies, etc.
  • 58 Exemption from stamp duty
  • 59 Regulations
  • 60 Agreements for exchange of correspondence between Barbados and other countries