Section 28 Retention of postal packets after delivery of part thereof to Post Office.C1
United Kingdom
If any person, being the master or commander, one of the officers or crew, or a passenger, of a ship or aircraft inward bound, knowingly has in his baggage or in his possession or custody any postal packet, except a postal packet not within the exclusive privilege of the F1Post Office, after the master of the ship or commander of the aircraft has sent any part of the postal packets on board the ship or aircraft to the F2Post Office, he shall for every such packet be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F3level 1 on the standard scale; and if he detains any such packet after demand made either by an officer of customs and excise or by any person authorised by the Post Office to demand the postal packets on board the ship or aircraft, he shall for every postal packet detained be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
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. 28 applied (with modifications) (7.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/878, art. 9 (with art. 17)
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878,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)