The Indian Post Office Act

Penalty for contravention of section 4

Penalty for contravention of section 5

Penalty for breach of rules under section 16

Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20

Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes

Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter-box

Penalty for making false declaration

Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41

Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port

Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag

Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags

Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters


Other offences


Whoever, being appointed to sell postage
stamps,--

(a) takes from any purchaser for any postage stamp or quantity of postage stamps a price higher
than that fixed by any rule made under section 16, sub-section (3), clause (a), shall be punishable with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to two
hundred rupees, or with both; or

(b) commits a breach of any other rule made under section 16, shall be punishable with fine
which may extend to two hundred rupees.

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# 60 Penalty for breach of rules under section 16