Section 30
Detention of articles containing seditious matter
(1)
The Postmaster General or any public officer authorised by him in writing in that behalf may detain any postal article in course of transmission by post which he has reasonable cause to suspect to contain seditious matter.
(2)
Such postal article may, with the express authorisation in writing of the Postmaster General, be opened and, if in fact it does contain seditious matter, may be handed over to the police.
(3)
In this section, “seditious matter” means words, signs or visible representations having a seditious intention or a seditious tendency as defined in any written law relating to sedition.
Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps 31.
The Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and
Yang Di-Pertuan, make rules as to the conditions under which a postal article received from any place outside Brunei Darussalam —
(a)
bearing a fictitious stamp; or
(b)
purporting to be prepaid with any postage stamp which has been previously used to prepay any other postal article or which has been previously used for any other purpose, may be delivered to the addressee and the manner in which the article shall be dealt with if the addressee refuses to comply with those conditions.
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