Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“addressee”, in relation to a postal article, means the person to whom the communication is addressed;

“authorised officer” means any person appointed as an authorised officer under section 3(2);

“Authority” means the Authority for Info-communications

Technology

Industry of

Brunei

Darussalam established by section 3 of the Authority for Info-communications

Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam Order, 2001

(S 39/2001);

“code of practice” means a code of practice issued or approved under section 25;

“correspondent”, in relation to a postal article, means the sender or person to whom it is addressed;

“direct mail” means a letter consisting solely of advertising, marketing or publicity material and comprising an identical message (except for the addressee’s name, address and identifying number and other modifications which do not alter the nature of the message) which is sent to more than one addressee, to be

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conveyed and delivered at the address indicated by the sender on the letter itself or on its wrapping;

“equipment” includes any appliance, apparatus or accessory used or intended to be used for postal purposes;

“installation or plant used for posts” includes all buildings, lands, structures, machinery, equipment, boxes and receptacles used or intended for use in connection with the transmission of postal articles by post;

“letter box” means any box or receptacle which the owner or occupier of any premises has provided or agreed to be used for the receipt of postal articles addressed to those premises;

“mail bag” means any form of container or covering in which postal articles in the course of transmission by post are enclosed by a licensee in Brunei Darussalam or a foreign postal administration for the purpose of conveyance by post, whether or not it contains any such articles;

“Minister”

means the

Minister of

Transport and lnfocommunications;

“parcel” means a postal article which is posted at a post office in

Brunei Darussalam as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of this Act or is received at a post office in Brunei Darussalam by parcel post;

“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee;

“post office” includes any building, house, room, vehicle or place used for the provision of any postal service;

“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;

“postage stamp” means any label or stamp for denoting any postage or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and includes any adhesive postage stamp or stamp printed, impressed or otherwise indicated on a postal article, whether the postage stamp is issued under this Act or by the government of any other country;

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“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post, but does not include such article or thing as the Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;

“postal licence” means a postal licence granted under section 8(1);

“postal licensee” means a person to whom a postal licence has been granted under section 8;

“postal service” means any service for the conveyance of postal articles from one place to another by post, and includes the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sorting, sending, despatching and delivering such postal articles and any other services which relate to any of those services and is provided in conjunction with any of them;

“posting box” includes any pillar box, wall box or other box or receptacle provided by or under the authority of a public postal licensee for the purpose of receiving postal articles for transmission by post;

“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the

Authority under section 9;

“public postal licensee’s installation or plant” means any installation or plant used for posts belonging to or used by a public postal licensee;

“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;

“standard of performance” means a standard of performance issued or approved under section 25;

“universal service” means postal services, which include basic postal services, as the Authority may determine, to be provided to consumers throughout Brunei Darussalam;

“vessel” includes any ship, boat, air-cushioned vehicle or floating rig or platform used in any form of operations at sea or any other description of vessel.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “letter” means any communication in written form on any kind of physical medium to be conveyed and delivered (otherwise than electronically) to a particular addressee or address indicated by the sender on the letter itself or on its

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wrapping, but does not include any book, catalogue, newspaper or periodical.

For the purposes of subsection (2), any reference to communication to be conveyed or delivered otherwise than electronically shall be a reference to a communication to be conveyed or delivered otherwise than —

For the purposes of this Act —