# 24A Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority

¹[24A. Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority.--The Central Government may, by general or special order, empower any officer of the Post Office, specified in such order, to deliver postal article, received from beyond the limits of ²[India] and suspected to contain anything liable to duty, to such Customs authority as may be specified in the said order, and such Customs authority shall deal with such article in accordance with the provisions of the Sea Customs Act, 1878 (8 of 1878)³ , or of any other law for the time being in force.]

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1. Ins. by s. 3, <i>ibid</i>.
2. Subs. by Act 25 of 1950, s. 11 and the Fourth Schedule, for "the States".
3. See now the Customs Act, 1962.

CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES

Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles

Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles

Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act

Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty

Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post

Power to intercept postal articles for public good

Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps

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