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Definitions for the purposes of 7 W.
4. & 1 Vict. c. 36.
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19.—(1.) In this Act and in the Post Office (Offences) Act, 1837, and in any enactments incorporating or referring to that Act, or to be construed as one therewith, the following expressions shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings assigned to them by this section; (that is to say,)
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The expression “post letter” shall mean a postal packet, as defined by this Act, from the time of its being delivered to a post office to the time of its being delivered to the person to whom it is addressed, and a delivery of a postal packet of any description to a letter carrier or other person authorised to receive postal packets of that description for the post shall be a delivery to the post office, and a delivery at the house or office of the person to whom the postal packet is addressed, or to him or to his servant or agent, or other person considered to be authorised to receive the postal packet according to the usual manner of delivering that person’s postal packets, shall be a delivery to the person addressed.
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The expression “post office” shall mean any house, building, room, carriage, or place where postal packets, as defined by this Act, or any of them, are by the permission or under the authority of the Postmaster General, received, delivered, sorted, or made up, or from which such packets, or any of them, are by the authority of the Postmaster General despatched, and shall include any post office letter box.
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The expression “post office letter box” shall include any pillar box, wall box, or other box or receptacle provided by the permission, or under the authority of the Postmaster General for the purpose of receiving postal packets, or any of them, for transmission by or under the authority of the Postmaster General.
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(2.) Where it appears to the Postmaster General that any post office letter box, by reason of being on the premises of any private person or otherwise, is so situate as not to afford the same security against the improper removal of postal packets therefrom or other fraud as exists in the case of other post office letter boxes, he may declare that the same shall be a private posting box, and shall affix upon or near such box a notice of its being and of the effect of its being a private posting box, and a postal packet put into that box shall not for the purpose of any enactment, law, or contract whereby the due posting of a postal packet is evidence of the receipt thereof by the addressee be deemed to have been duly posted.
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A certificate purporting to be signed by the Postmaster General or any secretary or assistant secretary of the post office and to the effect that any box or receptacle is or was provided by the permission or under the authority of the Postmaster General for the purpose of receiving postal packets, or any of them, shall in any legal proceeding be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.
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