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On 23/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 23/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 23/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 22/08/2007.
Amendment of section 23
17.  Section 23 of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by inserting, immediately after the words “public postal licensee” in subsection (1), the words “or otherwise dealt with in accordance with the directions of the Postal Authority”;
(b)
by deleting the words “manner as the public postal licensee may direct” in subsection (3) and substituting the words “other manner as the Postal Authority may direct”; and
(c)
by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsections:
(4)  The Postal Authority may, by order in writing, direct a postal licensee to detain and open all or any postal articles sent by any person or persons named in the order who are reasonably suspected of sending postal articles by post in contravention of this Act.
(5)  Upon receipt of an order under subsection (4), a postal licensee shall detain and open the postal article or articles specified in the order, and any postal article found to have been sent in contravention of this Act shall be dealt with in accordance with subsection (3).”.