Section 2
Interpretation
(1)
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“commencement date” means the date when this Act shall come into operation;
“contract carrier” means any ship or other vessel, or any aircraft, for the conveyance of mails pursuant to contract or continuing arrangement;
“Department” means the Postal Services Department administered by the Postmaster General pursuant to section 3(2);
“fictitious stamp” means any facsimile or imitation or representation, whether on paper or otherwise, of any postage stamp purporting to denote any rate of postage including any stamp purporting to denote a rate of postage of any other country;
“letter box” includes any pillar box, wall box or other box or receptacle of the Department for the reception of postal articles, or any class of postal articles, for transmission by post under the authority of the Postmaster General;
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“mail bag” means any bag, box, basket, parcel, envelope or covering in which postal articles in course of transmission by post are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain any such article;
“master” means, in relation to a contract carrier or a vessel, any person for the time being in charge or command of such contract carrier or vessel but does not include a sea pilot;
“officer of the Department” includes any person employed in any business of the Department or on behalf of the Department;
“port” means any area declared to be a port under the Maritime and
Port Authority of Brunei Darussalam Order, 2017 (S 22/2017);
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“post office” includes every house, building, room, vessel, carriage or place used for the purposes of the Department and every letter box;
“postage” means the duty chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;
“postage stamp” means any label or stamp for denoting any rate of postage fee or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and includes adhesive postage stamps and stamps printed, embossed, impressed or otherwise indicated on any envelope, wrapper, postcard or other article, whether such postage stamp is issued under this Act or by the government of any other country;
“postal article” includes any letter, postcard, newspaper, book, document, pamphlet, small packet, parcel, package or other article or thing whatsoever transmissible by post;
“Postmaster General” means the officer for the time being appointed to be the Postmaster General under section 3(1), and includes the Deputy Postmaster General;
“vessel” means any ship or other vessel or any aircraft, not being a contract carrier.
(2)
For the purposes of this Act —
(a)
a postal article is deemed to be in course of transmission by post from the time of its being delivered to a post office to the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under the provisions of this Act;
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(b)
a postal article is deemed to cease to be such from the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or of its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under the provisions of this Act;
(c)
the placing of a postal article in a letter box or the delivery of a postal article to an officer of the Department in the course of his duties is deemed to be delivery to a post office;
(d)
the delivery of a postal article at the house or office or to a private box of the addressee, or to the addressee or to his servant or agent or other person considered to be authorised to receive the article according to the usual manner of delivering postal articles to the addressee, and where the addressee is a guest or is resident at a hotel, delivery to the proprietor or manager thereof or to his agent is deemed to be delivery to the addressee.