Post Office (Departmental Administration) Regulations 1933
Download PDF| Year | 1933 |
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| Category | Consolidated |
| Last Updated | 2026-02-19 16:15:51 |
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Table of Contents
- 1. Division of regulations into Parts
- 2. Interpretation
- 3. Construction of Regulations with Post Office Act
- PART II
- 4. Sealing of inland mails
- 5. Despatch of inland mails between sub-post offices
- 6. Requirement that mail vehicles call at post offices en route
- 7. Special mail vehicles
- 8. Reception of mails from mail vehicles, etc.
- 9. Delivery of ordinary mails
- 10. Special mails
- 11. Eastern and Western Districts
- 12. Mail processing to be done at Bermuda Mail Processing Centre
- 13. Provision of date stamps
- 14. Use of date stamps
- 15. Adjustment of figures on date stamps
- 16. Index letters
- 17. Use of index letters
- 18. Impression of stamp on packets for dispatch
- 19. Impression of stamp on packets received from post offices
- 20. Method of stamping packets
- 21. Provision of stamping pads and composition
- 22. Legibility of stamping
- 23. Delivery of postal packets
- 24. Deliveries to be made by postmen
- 25. Duties of postmen in connection with deliveries
- 26. Entry of sums for collection on letter bill
- 27. General provisions relating to letter bills
- 28. Postage due
- 29. Provisions relating to taxing of packets
- 30. Taxing of packets for transmission abroad
- 31. Remission of sums collected as postage due
- 32. Undelivered postal packets
- 33. Authority to open and return undelivered packets
- 34. Record of disposal, etc., of undelivered packets
- 35. Application for missing packet
- 36. Tracing of missing packets
- 37. Recording etc., missing packet
- 38. Missing registered packets
- 39. Packets found open
- 40. Stamping of missent packets
- 41. Reports of missent packets
- 42. Handling of wrongly delivered packets
- 43. Cancelling, taxing, etc., of improperly stamped packets
- 44. Inspection and disposal of postal packets with respect to dangerous, etc., articles
- 45. Procedure on receipt of c.o.d. parcels
- 46. Distribution of c.o.d. parcels
- 47. Cash on delivery trade charge book
- 48. Advice of receipt to addresses; collection of charges, duty, etc.
- 49. Accounting for c.o.d. payments
- 50. Trade charge money order cards
- 51. Transmission of money order cards to London
- 52. Receipts and records of packets registered for transmission abroad
- 53. Entry of registered packets on letter bills
- 54. Entry of registered packets in delivery receipt book
- 55. Receipts for registered packets
- 56. Correspondence of receipts and delivery receipt book
- 57. Duties of letter carriers with respect to registered packets
- 58. Power of servant, etc., to give receipt for registered packet
- 59. Safe custody of registered packets
- 60. Record of packets compulsorily registered
- 61. Enquiries, etc., prior to payment for indemnity for loss of registered packet
- 62. Receipt for indemnity
- 63. Duties of officers upon arrival of overseas mail
- 64. Checking of overseas mail
- 65. Notification of errors, etc.
- 66. Stamping of letter bills, etc.
- 67. Sorting of overseas mail
- 68. Delivery of overseas mail
- 69. Sorting, etc. of outward overseas mail
- 70. Insufficiently stamped overseas mail
- 71. Exception from taxation of official packets
- 72. Handling of registered packets in outward overseas mail
- 73. Handling of newspapers, etc., in outward overseas mail
- 74. Letter bills
- 75. Handling of mail prior to despatch of outward overseas mail
- 76. Receipts for outward overseas mail
- 77. Notice of closing of sea mails [revoked]
- 78. Payment for sea mails carried otherwise than in mail ship or one of H.M.
- 79. Payment for carriage of air mail [revoked]
- PART III
- 80. Issue, etc., of Money Orders
- 81. Certificate of issue, etc., of Through Money Orders
- 82. Accounting for Money Orders
- 83. Recording of issue of Money Orders, etc.
- 84. Cancellation, etc., of spoiled Money Order
- 85. Restrictions on payment of Money Orders
- 86. Correction of lists of Money Order offices
- 87. Advices of Money Orders issued on the United Kingdom
- 88. Accounting for Money Orders with United States, Canada and West Indies
- 89. Despatch of advices to Postmaster-General
- 90. Checking of Money Orders drawn on the United Kingdom, etc.
- 91. Stamping of Money Order lists
- 92. Stamping of advices
- 93. Stamping, etc., of Money Orders, and recording of payment
- 94. Accounting of Money Order officers
- 95. Conditions upon which payment of Money Order may be made
- 96. Prohibition of payment of Money Order prior to advice
- 97. Security of Money Orders, advices, etc.
- 98. Loss of Money Order of advice forms
- 99. Periodic accounting for Money Order transactions
- 100. Books and forms for Money Order offices
- 101. Checking of inward telegram of advice of Money Order
- 102. Delivery of Money Order or advice to payee
- 103. Application of general international conditions to telegrams sent in connection
- 104. Accounting for Telegraph Money Orders
- 105. Listing of particulars of Telegraph Money Orders
- 106. Checking of advice lists, etc.
- 107. Responsibility for losses involved in transmission
- 108. Authorization of Postmaster-General to hold cash balance for settlement of Money
- 109. Cash advances to Money Order offices
- PART IV
- 110. Separate accounts at General Post Office, Hamilton
- 111. Preservation of accounts
- 112. Duplicates of accounts kept with certain offices
- 113. Weekly accounting by sub-post offices, etc.
- 114. Quarterly statement of account by Postmaster-General
- 115. Certified account of import duties received by officers of Post Office
- 116. Provision where entry not made
- 117. Separation of cash received for Money Orders
- 118. Separation of miscellaneous cash
- 119. Accounting for cash
- 120. Inspection of cash books
- 121. Production of books upon audit
- 122. Checking of entries of paid Money Orders
- 123. Audit of postage stamps
- 124. General duties of Postmaster-General with respect to audit
- PART V
- 125. Giving of security by officers of Post Office [omitted]
- 126. Bonds of inland mail contractors
- 127. Official secrecy
- 128. Making private charge to be an offence
- 129. Prohibition of application of public funds for private use
- 130. Familiarization with statutory provisions and duties
- PART VI
- 131. Duty to report breach of exclusive privilege of Postmaster-General, frauds, etc.
- 132. Prosecution of offender for breach of privilege, etc.
- 133. Credit stocks of postage stamps etc. to be held by Postmaster-General
- 134. Credit stocks of postage stamps, etc., at sub-post offices
- 135. Receipts for credit stocks
- 136. Stocks to be kept on hand [revoked]
- 137. Applications for supplies of postage stamps, etc.
- 138. Requisitions for postage stamps
- 139. Operation of sub-post offices; duties of Sub-Postmasters
- 140. Money Order offices
- 141. Reference to Post Office Regulations
- 142. Siting of letter boxes
- 143. Pouches for letter carriers
- 144. Disposal of lost property found in post office
- 145. Return of lost property
- 146. Notice of requirements of Post Office stores
- 147. Official papers
- 148. Preservation of correspondence
- 149. Returns of subordinate officers
- PART VII
- 150. Punishment for contravention of Regulations
- 151. Administrative measures against officers of the Post Office, etc., in respect of
- 1. These Regulations are divided into Parts as follows—
- PART I — Preliminary.
- PART II — Administration of postal services.
- PART III — Transmission of Money Orders.
- PART IV — Post Office accounting.
- PART V — Duties, etc., of officers of the Post Office.
- PART VI — Miscellaneous administrative provisions.
- PART VII — Legal proceedings.
- 2. In these Regulations—
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