Section 27 Owners’ letters.C1
United Kingdom
The two next following subsections shall apply to any letter addressed to the owner, charterer or consignee of a ship or aircraft inward bound or to the owner, consignee or shipper of any goods carried in such a ship or aircraft, being a letter which, not being excepted from the exclusive privilege of the F1Post Office, complies with the following conditions, that is to say—
that the addressee is described in the address or superscription on the letter as such owner, charterer, consignee or shipper; and
in the case of a letter addressed to an owner, consignee or shipper of goods, that it also appears by the ship’s manifest or by the manifest and declaration of the aircraft that the addressee has goods on board the ship or aircraft.
Any such letter required to be delivered to a person at the place of arrival of the ship or aircraft shall be delivered to that person by the master of the ship or the commander of the aircraft free of inland postage and that person shall be entitled to the delivery thereof before the delivery of any other postal packets to the F2Post Office.
Any such letter required to be delivered to a person at any other place in the British postal area shall be delivered by post on payment of inland postage only.
If any person with intent to evade any postage falsely superscribes any letter as being for the owner, charterer or consignee of the ship or aircraft conveying the letter or for the owner, consignee or shipper of goods carried in that ship or aircraft, he shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F3level 1 on the standard scale.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 23(1)(b)
- F2
Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)
- F3
Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G and (N.I.) by virtue of S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6
Modifications
- C1
S. 27 applied (with modifications) (7.3.2001) S.I. 2001/878, art. 8 (with. art. 17)
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878, art. 2, Sch. Table (subject to transitional and saving provisions in arts. 3-17); S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2(2), Sch. Table (subject to arts. 3-42)