Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951

Prohibition of use of certain words, letters, signs or marks.

12.—(1) No person shall without the authority of the Minister—

(a) place or maintain in or on any vessel, vehicle, aircraft or premises belonging to him or under his control, or

(b) use in any document in relation to himself or any other person or in relation to any vessel, vehicle, aircraft or premises,

any words, letters, signs or marks, which signify or imply or may reasonably lead a member of the public to believe that the vessel, vehicle, aircraft or premises is or are used by the Minister or with his authority for the purpose of collecting or conveying postal packets or that the person or the other person is authorised by the Minister to collect or convey such packets.

(2) Every person when required by a notice given by the Minister to remove or efface or cease to use any such words, letters, signs or marks as aforesaid shall comply with the requirement.

(3) Subsection (1) of section 66 of the Act of 1908 shall apply to the words “public telephone call office” and any other words, letters, signs or marks, which signify or imply or may reasonably lead a member of the public to believe that any place is a place where the public may make telephone calls, as it applies to the words “postal telegraph office”.

(4) Subsection (2) of the said section 66 shall apply in relation to a contravention of this section as it applies in relation to a contravention of that section.