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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POST ACT
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Act
23 of 1938
Amended by
3 of 1940
29 of 1942
25 of 1957
2 of 1962
136/1976
6 of 1979
3 of 1980
47 of 1980
6 of 1989
3 of 1994
1 of 1999
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Index of Subsidiary Legislation
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Post Office (British Postal Orders) (Issue and Poundage) Regulations
(GN 117/1974) … … … … … … 23
Trinidad and Tobago Post Regulations (G. 8.12.1938) … … … 24
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CHAPTER 47:01
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POST ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title.
2.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
23
24. Dealing with postal articles not sent in conformity with Act.
25.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
30.
APPLICATION OF THE CUSTOMS LAWS
31. Application of Customs enactments to goods received into or
despatched from Trinidad and Tobago in postal articles.
32. Regulations may be made for the purpose aforesaid.
33. Goods contained in postal article contrary to law.
SHIP LETTERS
34. Duty of master or agent of outward bound vessel or aircraft with respect
to mail.
35. Duty of master of inward bound vessel or aircraft as respects
postal articles and mail bags.
36. Penalty for master of vessel opening mail bag.
37. Duties of officers of Customs and Excise as to delivery of letters by
masters of vessels.
38. Shipowners’ letters.
39. Gratuities to masters of vessels.
40. Retention of ship letters after delivery of letters to Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
41.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
46.
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SECTION
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POST OFFENCES
47. Unlawfully taking away or opening mail bag sent by vessel employed
under Trinidad and Tobago Post.
48. Fraudulent retention of mail bag or postal article.
49. Criminal diversion of letters from addressee.
50. Destruction, etc., by employees of Trinidad and Tobago Post of
postal article.
51. Opening or delaying postal articles.
52. Carelessness, negligence or misconduct of persons employed in
carrying or delivering mail bags, postal articles, etc.
53. Issuing money or postal orders with fraudulent intent.
54. Forgery and stealing of money or postal order.
Fraudulent alteration amounts to offence.
55. Punishment of offences in relation to postal orders, and the
poundage thereon.
56. Placing injurious substances in or against letter boxes.
57. Prohibition of affixing placards, notices, etc., on Trinidad and Tobago
Post property.
58. Prohibitions.
Obscene prints, etc.
Narcotics, explosives and dangerous or noxious articles.
59. Imitation of stamps, envelopes, forms, and marks.
60. Fictitious stamps.
61. Fraudulently removing or using old stamps and counterfeiting
international reply coupons and postal identity cards.
62. Penalty for wrongfully writing on postal articles.
63. Prohibition of false notice as to reception of letters.
64. Offences in Trinidad and Tobago Posts, and obstruction of employees
of Trinidad and Tobago Post.
Refusing to leave Trinidad and Tobago Post.
65. Unlawfully entering Trinidad and Tobago Post.
66. Endeavouring to procure commission of offence.
67.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
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CHAPTER 47:01
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POST ACT
An Act relating to the Trinidad and Tobago Post.
[1ST JANUARY 1939]
1. This Act may be cited as the Trinidad and Tobago Post Act.
2.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
23.
24. If any postal article is posted or sent by post in
contravention of this Act or the Trinidad and Tobago Postal
Corporation Act, the transmission of the postal article may be
refused, and the postal article may, if necessary, be detained and
opened in Trinidad and Tobago Post, and shall be either returned
to the sender or forwarded to its destination, in either case charged
with such additional postage or without any additional charge as
any Regulations made under this Act may direct, or may be
destroyed or otherwise disposed of as Trinidad and Tobago Post
may direct.
25.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
30.
APPLICATION OF THE CUSTOMS LAWS
31. Subject to any exceptions and modifications made by
Regulations under section 32 the Customs Laws shall apply to
goods contained in foreign postal articles in the same manner, so
far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, as they apply to any
other goods; and persons may be punished for offences against the
customs laws, and goods may be examined, seized and forfeited,
and the officers examining and seizing them shall be protected
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1950 Ed.
Ch. 36 No. 1.
23 of 1938.
Commencement.
Short title.
Dealing with
postal articles
not sent in
conformity
with Act.
[1 of 1999].
Ch. 47.02.
Application of
Customs
enactments to
goods received
into or
despatched from
Trinidad and
Tobago in
postal articles.
[1 of 1999].
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and legal proceedings in relation to the matters mentioned above
may be taken accordingly under the customs laws.
32. (1)(a) The President may make Regulations for the
purpose of modifying or excepting the application of any of the
customs laws to foreign postal articles, and for the purpose of
securing in the case of postal articles the observance of the customs
laws, and for enabling the employees of Trinidad and Tobago
Post to perform, for the purpose of the customs laws and otherwise,
all or any of the duties of the importer and exporter, and for carrying
into effect any arrangement with the Government or Postal
Administration of any other country with reference to the postal
articles, and for punishing any contravention of the customs laws
or of the Regulations made under this section.
(b) Regulations made under paragraph (a) may make
special provision in relation to chargeable goods mentioned in Part II
of the First Schedule to the Purchase, Sweepstake and Departure
Taxes Act and to tax chargeable by virtue of an importation.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the power to
make Regulations contained in subsection (1), the President may
by Regulations made under that subsection prescribe what
descriptions of postal articles may or may not contain goods or
other articles of any description whatever and the conditions under
which they may contain such goods or articles.
(3) Trinidad and Tobago Post shall have the same right
of recovering any sum paid in pursuance of the customs laws or
otherwise under the Regulations in respect of any foreign postal
article as he would have if the sum so paid were a rate of postage.
(4) A contravention of the Regulations made under this
section shall be deemed to be a contravention of the customs laws,
and shall involve accordingly the like punishment of persons guilty
thereof and the like forfeiture of goods.
33. (1) Any employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post may
detain any incoming foreign postal article which he suspects of
containing goods prohibited to be conveyed in the postal article,
Regulations may
be made for
the purpose
aforesaid.
[13 of 1963
1 of 1999].
First Schedule.
Ch. 77:01.
Goods
contained in
postal article
contrary to law.
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or of containing any letter, printed matter, document or other
article whatever, the conveyance of which by post or the
importation of which is prohibited or restricted by law, and deliver
the postal article to the proper officer of Customs and Excise,
who may open and examine the postal article in the presence of
the person to whom the postal article is addressed (or of his
accredited representative) or in the absence of such person, if,
after notice in writing from the officer requiring the attendance
of such person left at or forwarded by post to the address on the
postal article, if any, he or his accredited representative fails
to attend.
(2) If the officer of Customs and Excise finds any goods
therein, or any letter, printed matter, document or other article
whatever being conveyed by post, or imported contrary to any
lawful prohibition or restriction, he may detain the postal article
and deal with it and its contents as goods imported contrary to
the customs laws; but if he finds no such goods, letter, printed
matter, document or other article, he shall either deliver the postal
article to the person to whom it is addressed or his accredited
representative, upon his paying the postage or other sum, if any,
chargeable on it or, if he is absent, forward the postal article by
post to the person to whom it is to be delivered.
SHIP LETTERS
34. (1) The master of any vessel or aircraft which is about to
depart from any port or place in Trinidad and Tobago, or his agent,
shall give an employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post at such port or
place notice in writing, in accordance with Regulations made
under section 63 of the Trinidad and Tobago Postal Corporation
Act, of the intended time of departure and of the places of call and
destination of the vessel or aircraft.
(2) The notice referred to in subsection (1) shall, in case
the destination of the vessel or aircraft is any place outside Trinidad
and Tobago, be given not less than twenty-four hours and, in case
the destination is any place within Trinidad and Tobago, not less
Duty of master
or agent of
outward bound
vessel or aircraft
with respect
to mail.
[25 of 1957
1 of 1999].
Ch. 47:02.
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than three hours, before the intended time of departure, so that the
period of twenty-four hours or three hours, as the case may be,
shall expire between the hours of eight o’clock in the forenoon
and six o’clock in the afternoon; but a shorter notice may be allowed
by Trinidad and Tobago Post at the port or place of departure in
any case or special class of cases.
(3) Where there has been any change in the intended time
of departure or in the places of call or destination of the vessel or
aircraft as notified under subsection (1), the master of the vessel
or aircraft, or his agent, shall forthwith give notice of the change
to an employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post in writing in
accordance with Regulations made under section 63 of the
Trinidad and Tobago Postal Corporation Act; but it shall not be
necessary to give the notice required by this subsection where the
only change is a postponement of the time of departure by not
more than twenty-four hours.
(4) Where an employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post, at
any port or place in Trinidad and Tobago at which any vessel or
aircraft happens to be, notified the master of the vessel or aircraft,
or his agent, that it is his intention to despatch mail by the vessel
or aircraft, the vessel or aircraft shall not depart until the master
has received on board any mail bag tendered to him by an employee
of Trinidad and Tobago Post; but the provisions of this subsection
shall not apply unless the mail bag has been tendered at least one
hour before the time notified as being the hour of departure of the
vessel or aircraft.
(5) The master of any vessel or aircraft shall issue a receipt
in such form as Trinidad and Tobago Post may require for any
mail bag tendered to him under the provisions of subsection (4)
and shall without delay deliver the mail bag at the port or place to
which it is consigned.
(6) Notwithstanding any provision of the Customs Act
to the contrary, no outward bound vessel or aircraft shall depart
from any port or place in Trinidad and Tobago until the master
or his agent has delivered to the proper Officer of Customs a
written declaration, in such form as may be prescribed by
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Trinidad and Tobago Post, showing that the requirements of
this section have been complied with.
(7) Notwithstanding any provision of the Customs Act to
the contrary, the proper Officer of Customs shall not allow any
outward bound vessel or aircraft to be cleared if he has reasonable
grounds for believing that any of the requirements of this section
have not been complied with.
(8) Any person who knowingly gives any false notice or
makes any false declaration for the purposes of this section is liable
on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
(9) In the event of any failure to comply with subsection (1),
subsection (4), subsection (5) or subsection (6), proceedings may be
taken against either the master or agent of the vessel or aircraft, at the
election of Trinidad and Tobago Post, and the master or agent, as
the case may be, shall in respect of the failure be liable on summary
conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars; and for any failure to
comply with subsection (3), the master or the agent, at the election of
Trinidad and Tobago Post, is liable on summary conviction to a fine
of four hundred dollars; but the commencement of proceedings
against any person by virtue of this subsection shall be a bar to
proceedings against any other person in respect of the same matter.
(10) Where owing to circumstances beyond the control
of both the master and the agent of the vessel or aircraft (the proof
of which shall be on the person charged) it is impracticable for any
provision of this section to be complied with, the vessel or aircraft
shall be exempt from such provisions.
(11) Subject to subsection (12), the preceding provisions
of this section shall apply only in respect of any vessel or aircraft—
(a) used for the conveyance of mail bags pursuant to
contract or continuing arrangement; or
(b) normally used for the conveyance of mail bags,
the disproof of which use shall lie on the master
or agent of the vessel or aircraft.
(12) Whenever Trinidad and Tobago Post considers that
for the purposes of this section an emergency exists he may publish
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a notice to that effect in the Gazette and in at least one of the
newspapers circulating in Trinidad and Tobago and as from the
day after the publication of the notice subsections (1) to (10)
shall have effect in relation to all vessels and aircraft not
mentioned in subsection (11) or to such classes thereof as shall
be stipulated by Trinidad and Tobago Post in the notice referred
to in this subsection.
(13) In this section, the expression “master of an aircraft”
includes the pilot or other person in charge of an aircraft; and the
terms “agent” and “proper Officer of Customs” have respectively
the same meanings as in the Customs Act.
35. (1) Every master of a vessel inward bound and every
pilot or other person in charge of an aircraft inward bound shall
collect all postal articles on board his vessel or aircraft being within
the exclusive privilege of Trinidad and Tobago Post, and not being
letters by this Act defined as shipowners’ letters, and enclose them
in some bag or other covering, sealed with his seal, and addressed
to Trinidad and Tobago Post, and without delay deliver those
postal articles together with any mail bags consigned to Trinidad
and Tobago to the proper employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post
demanding them or, if no demand is made by that employee of
Trinidad and Tobago Post, then at the Trinidad and Tobago Post
with which he can first communicate.
(2) Where there are on board any such vessel or aircraft
any postal articles or mail bags required to be delivered as
mentioned above, the master of the vessel or the pilot or other
person in charge of the aircraft shall, at the port or place where the
vessel or aircraft reports, sign, in the presence of the proper
employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post or other person authorised
by Trinidad and Tobago Post, a declaration of compliance with
this Act (in such form as may be prescribed by Trinidad and
Tobago Post), and shall not break bulk or make entry of any part
of her cargo in any port or place until he has complied with this
section. The declaration shall also be signed by the person in whose
presence it is made.
Ch. 78:01.
Duty of master
of inward bound
vessel or aircraft
as respects
postal articles
and mail bags.
[25 of 1957
1 of 1999].
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(3) If the master of a vessel or the pilot or other person in
charge of an aircraft does not duly deliver any postal articles or
mail bags in accordance with this section, he shall forfeit eight
thousand dollars.
(4) If the master of a vessel or the pilot or other person in
charge of an aircraft refuses or wilfully neglects to make the
declaration required by this section, he shall forfeit two
thousand dollars.
(5) Any master of a vessel or pilot or other person in
charge of an aircraft who breaks bulk or makes entry before the
postal articles and mail bags on board his vessel or aircraft have
been delivered in accordance with this section, is liable, on
summary conviction, to a fine of one thousand dollars.
36. (1) Any master of a vessel or pilot or other person in
charge of an aircraft who—
(a) opens a sealed mail bag with which he is entrusted
for conveyance; or
(b) takes out of a mail bag with which he is entrusted
for conveyance any postal article or other thing,
shall forfeit eight thousand dollars.
(2) Any person to whom postal articles have been
entrusted by the master of a vessel or the pilot or other person in
charge of an aircraft to deliver to Trinidad and Tobago Post who
breaks the seal, or in any manner wilfully opens them, is liable on
summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
37. An officer of Customs and Excise shall not allow any
inward-bound vessel or aircraft to report until the declaration
required by this Act with respect to postal articles has been made
and produced to him, and may refuse to permit bulk to be broken
on board such a vessel or aircraft or entry to be made of any part of
her cargo until the postal articles on board the vessel or aircraft
have been delivered as required by this Act, and may search every
such vessel or aircraft for postal articles within the exclusive
Penalty for
master of
vessel opening
mail bag.
[1 of 1999].
Duties of
officers of
Customs and
Excise as to
delivery of
letters by
masters of
vessels.
[1 of 1999].
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privilege of Trinidad and Tobago Post, and may seize the same
and forward them to the nearest Trinidad and Tobago Post.
38. (1) The following letters (in this Act referred to as
shipowners’ letters), that is to say, letters of the owners, charterers
or consignees of vessels or aircraft inward bound, and of the owners,
consignees or shippers of goods on board those vessels or aircraft,
when complying with the conditions mentioned below, shall—
(a) if required to be delivered at the port or place of
the vessel’s or aircraft’s arrival, be delivered to the
owners, charterers, consignees or shippers by the
master of the vessel or the pilot or other person in
charge of the aircraft free of inland postage, and
the persons to whom they are to be delivered are
entitled to the delivery thereof before the delivery
of the other letters to the Trinidad and Tobago
Post; and
(b) if delivered elsewhere in Trinidad and Tobago,
be delivered by post on payment of inland
postage only.
(2) (a) The owner, charterer or consignee shall be
described as such on the address and superscription.
(b) In the case of owners, shippers or consignees of
goods, it shall also appear by the ship’s manifest or by the manifest
and declaration of the aircraft that they have goods on board the
vessel or aircraft.
(3) Any person who with intent to evade any postage
falsely superscribes a letter as being the owner or charterer or
consignee of the vessel or aircraft conveying the letter, or as the
owner or the shipper or the consignee of goods shipped on to the
vessel or aircraft, is for each offence liable on summary conviction
to a fine of four hundred dollars.
39. Trinidad and Tobago Post may with the approval of the
Minister provide for the allowance to owners or masters of vessels
or owners or persons in charge of aircraft in respect of postal articles,
Shipowners’
letters.
[1 of 1999].
Gratuities to
masters of
vessels.
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or any description thereof, conveyed by them on behalf of Trinidad
and Tobago Post, and also to pilots, crew and others in respect of
postal articles, or any description thereof, brought by them to any
Trinidad and Tobago Post from any vessels or aircraft, of such
gratuities under such conditions and restrictions as he may, from
time to time, think fit.
40. If any person being either the master of a vessel inward
bound or the pilot or other person in charge of an aircraft inward
bound or one of the officers or crew of such a vessel or aircraft, or
a passenger thereof, knowingly has in his baggage or in his
possession or custody any postal article not exempted from the
privilege of Trinidad and Tobago Post, after the master of the
vessel or the pilot or other person in charge of the aircraft has sent
any part of the postal articles on board to Trinidad and Tobago
Post, he is for every such postal article liable on summary
conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars; and, if he detains any
such postal article after demand made, either by an officer of
Customs and Excise or by any person authorised by Trinidad and
Tobago Post to demand the postal articles on board the vessel or
aircraft, he is for every postal article liable on summary conviction
to a fine of four hundred dollars.
41.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
46.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POST OFFENCES
47. Any person who, within Trinidad and Tobago or its
territorial waters, unlawfully takes away or opens a mail bag
sent by any vessel, vehicle or aircraft employed by or under
Trinidad and Tobago Post for the transmission of postal articles
under contract, or unlawfully takes a postal article in course of
transmission by post out of a mail bag so sent, is liable to
imprisonment for four years.
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Retention of
ship letters
after delivery
of letters to
Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
[1 of 1999].
Unlawfully
taking away or
opening mail
bag sent by
vessel employed
under Trinidad
and Tobago
Post.
[1 of 1999].
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48. Any person who fraudulently retains, or wilfully secretes
or keeps, or detains, or, when required by an employee of Trinidad
and Tobago Post, neglects or refuses to deliver up—
(a) any postal article which is in course of
transmission by post and which ought to have
been delivered to any other person; or
(b) any postal article in course of transmission by post
or any mail bag which has been found by him or
by any other person,
is liable to a fine of four thousand dollars and to imprisonment for
two years.
49. (1) Any person not in the employment of Trinidad and
Tobago Post who wilfully and maliciously with intent to injure
any other person, either opens or causes to be opened any letter
which ought to have been delivered to that other person, or does
any act or thing whereby the due delivery of the letter to that other
person is prevented or impeded, is liable on summary conviction
to a fine of two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to a person who
does any act to which this section applies where he is parent, or in
the position of parent or guardian, of the person to whom the letter
is addressed.
(3) A prosecution shall not be instituted in pursuance
of this section except by the direction or with the consent of
Trinidad and Tobago Post.
(4) A letter in this section means a postal article in course
of transmission by post and any other letter which has been
delivered by post.
50. Any employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post who, for any
purposes whatever, secretes or destroys a postal article in course
of transmission by post, is liable to imprisonment for three years
or, if the postal article contains any chattel or money or valuable
security, to imprisonment for five years.
Fraudulent
retention of mail
bag or postal
article.
[1 of 1999].
Criminal
diversion of
letters from
addressee.
[1 of 1999].
Destruction,
etc., by
employees of
Trinidad and
Tobago Post of
postal article.
[1 of 1999].
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51. (1) Any employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post who,
contrary to his duty, opens or procures or suffers to be opened any
postal article in course of transmission by post, or wilfully detains
or delays, or procures or suffers to be detained or delayed, any
such postal article, is liable to a fine of four thousand dollars and
to imprisonment for two years.
(2) Nothing in this section shall extend to the opening,
detaining, or delaying of a postal article returned for want of a true
direction, or returned by reason that the person to whom it is
directed is dead or cannot be found, or has refused it, or has refused
or neglected to pay the postage, or to the opening or detaining or
delaying or disposal of a postal article under the authority of this
Act, or in obedience to an express warrant in writing under the
hand of the President, which warrant the President is hereby
authorised to issue, but subject to such directions as he may give
as to the disposal of the postal article.
52. Any person employed to convey or deliver a mail bag or
postal article in course of transmission by post, or to perform any
other duty in respect of such a mail bag or postal article, who—
(a) without authority whilst so employed or, whilst the
mail bag or postal article is in his custody or
possession, leaves it, or suffers any person, not
being the guard or person employed for that
purpose, to ride in the place appointed for the guard
in or upon any vehicle used for the conveyance of
it, or to ride in or upon a vehicle so used and not
licensed to carry passengers, or upon a horse used
for the conveyance on horseback of it;
(b) is guilty of any act of drunkenness whilst so
employed;
(c) is guilty of carelessness, negligence, or other
misconduct, whereby the safety of the mail bag
or postal article is endangered;
(d) without lawful authority collects or receives or
conveys or delivers a postal article otherwise
than in the ordinary course of post;
Opening or
delaying postal
articles.
[1 of 1999].
Carelessness,
negligence, or
misconduct of
persons
employed in
carrying or
delivering mail
bags, postal
articles, etc.
[1 of 1999].
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(e) gives any false information of an assault or
attempt at robbery upon him; or
(f) loiters on the road or passage, or wilfully mis-
spends his time so as to retard the progress or
delay the arrival of a mail bag or postal article in
the course of transmission by post, or does not
use due care and diligence safely to convey a mail
bag or postal article at the due rate of speed,
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
53. (1) Any employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post who
grants or issues any money order or any postal order with a
fraudulent intent is liable to imprisonment for three years.
(2) If any employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post re-issues
a money order or a postal order previously paid, he shall be deemed
to have issued the order with a fraudulent intent under this section.
54. (1) A money order or a postal order shall be deemed to be
an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within
the meaning of this Act and of any law relating to forgery or stealing
which is for the time being in force in Trinidad and Tobago.
(2) Any person who, with intent to defraud, obliterates,
adds to, or alters any such lines or words on a money order or
postal order as would, in the case of a cheque, be a crossing of that
cheque, or knowingly utters, offers, or disposes of any money order
or postal order with such fraudulent obliteration, addition, or
alteration, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to the like
punishment as if the order were a cheque.
55. The law respecting the punishment of offences connected
with stamp duties (including the provisions relating to paper and
implements used in the manufacture of that paper, and to the
punishing of fraud) shall apply in like manner as if any poundage
or commission chargeable for a money or postal order were stamp
duty, and as if the paper used for money orders or postal orders
were paper provided by the Comptroller of Accounts for receiving
the impression of a die.
Issuing money
or postal orders
with fraudulent
intent.
[1 of 1999].
Forgery and
stealing of
money or
postal order.
Fraudulent
alteration
amounts to
offence.
Punishment of
offences in
relation to
postal orders,
and the
poundage
thereon.
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56. (1) A person shall not place or attempt to place in or
against any Trinidad and Tobago Post letter box any fire, any
match, any light, any explosive substance, any dangerous substance,
any filth, any noxious or deleterious substance, or any fluid, or
commit a nuisance in or against any Trinidad and Tobago Post
letter box, or do or attempt to do anything likely to injure the box,
appurtenances, or contents.
(2) Any person who acts in contravention of this section
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of four thousand dollars
and on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for two years.
57. (1) A person shall not, without due authority, affix or
attempt to affix any placard, advertisement, notice, list, document,
board or thing, in or on, or paint or tar, any Trinidad and Tobago
Post, Trinidad and Tobago Post letter box or other property
belonging to or used by or on behalf of Trinidad and Tobago Post,
or in any way disfigure any such office, box or other property.
(2) Any person who acts in contravention of this section
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars.
58. (1) A person shall not send or attempt to send or procure
to be sent by post any postal article—
(a) consisting of or containing any indecent or
obscene print, painting, photograph, lithograph,
engraving, photographic or cinematograph film,
book, card, or written communication, or any
indecent or obscene article, whether similar to the
above or not;
(b) having in it or on the cover any words, marks, or
designs which are grossly offensive or of an
indecent or obscene character; or
(c) consisting of or containing—
(i) opium, morphine, cocaine, and other
narcotics, provided that the narcotics may
be sent for medical or scientific purposes
in insured boxes to countries which admit
them when so sent;
Placing
injurious
substances in or
against letter
boxes.
[3 of 1980
1 of 1999].
Prohibition of
affixing
placards,
notices, etc., on
Trinidad and
Tobago Post
property.
[1 of 1999].
Prohibitions.
[6 of 1979
3 of 1980
1 of 1999].
Obscene prints,
etc.
Narcotics,
explosives and
dangerous or
noxious articles.
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(ii) any explosive substance;
(iii) any dangerous substance;
(iv) any filth;
(v) any noxious or deleterious substance;
(vi) any sharp instrument not properly protected;
(vii) any living animals, except bees, silkworms
and leeches packed in accordance with the
Regulations;
(viii) any article or thing whatsoever which is likely
to injure any other postal article in course
of conveyance or any receptacle in which
the same is conveyed, or an employee of
Trinidad and Tobago Post or other person
who may deal with the postal article.
(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an organisation or
establishment involved in scientific research or analysis and so
recognised by Government may send by post to another such
organisation or establishment a postal article containing parasites
or destroyers of noxious insects intended to be used in the control
of insect pests, weeds or other harmful matter.
(2) Any person who acts in contravention of this section is
liable on summary conviction to a fine of four hundred dollars and
on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for twelve months,
and the Court shall make such order as it thinks fit as to the disposal
or destruction of any article the subject matter of a contravention.
(3) The detention in Trinidad and Tobago Post of any
postal article on the ground of its being in contravention of this
section shall not exempt the sender thereof from any proceedings
which might have been taken if the same had been delivered in
due course of post.
59. (1) A person shall not, without due authority—
(a) make, issue, or send by post or otherwise any
envelope, wrapper, card, form, or paper in imitation
of one issued by or under the authority of the
Imitation of
stamps,
envelopes,
forms and
marks.
[1 of 1999].
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President or Trinidad and Tobago Post or of any
other postal administration, or having thereon any
words, letters, or marks which signify or imply, or
may reasonably lead the recipient to believe, that
a postal article bearing the same is sent On Trinidad
and Tobago Government Service;
(b) make on any envelope, wrapper, card, form or
paper for the purpose of being issued or sent by
post or otherwise, or otherwise used, any mark
in imitation of or similar to or purporting to be
any stamp or mark of any Trinidad and Tobago
Post or under any other postal administration, or
any words, letters or marks which signify or
imply, or may reasonably lead the recipient
thereof to believe, that a postal article bearing the
same is sent on Trinidad and Tobago Government
Service; or
(c) issue or send by post or otherwise any envelope,
wrapper, card, form or paper so marked.
(2) Any person who acts in contravention of this section
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars.
60. (1) A person shall not—
(a) make, knowingly utter, deal in, or sell any
fictitious stamp, or knowingly use for the
purpose of Trinidad and Tobago post any
fictitious stamp;
(b) have in his possession, unless he shows a lawful
excuse, any fictitious stamp; or
(c) make or, unless he shows a lawful excuse, have
in his possession any die, plate, instrument or
materials for making any fictitious stamp.
(2) Any person who acts in contravention of this section
is liable on summary conviction, on a prosecution by order of the
Comptroller of Accounts, to a fine of one thousand dollars.
Fictitious
stamps.
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(3) Any stamp, die, plate, instrument or materials found
in the possession of any person in contravention of this section
may be siezed and shall be forfeited.
(4) For the purposes of this section, the expression
“fictitious stamp” means any facsimile, imitation or representation,
whether on paper or otherwise, of any stamp for the time being
authorised or required to be used for the purpose of Trinidad and
Tobago Post or of any stamp for denoting a current rate of postage
of any other country.
61. Any person who fraudulently—
(a) gets off or removes, or causes to be gotten off or
removed, from any letter, cover, paper or other
substance or material any postage stamp or
impression of a postal franking machine already
used;
(b) uses, joins, fixes or places with or upon any letter
or cover or any paper or other substance any
postage stamp or impression of a postal franking
machine which has been already used;
(c) counterfeits an international reply coupon or
postal identity card; or
(d) uses any counterfeit international reply coupon
or postal identity card,
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of four hundred dollars.
62. Any person who knowingly writes upon or marks the cover
or the contents of any postal article in any manner contrary to the
Laws and Regulations relating to Trinidad and Tobago Post is liable
on summary conviction to a fine of four hundred dollars.
63. (1) A person shall not, without authority from Trinidad
and Tobago Post, place or maintain in or on any house, wall, door,
window, box, post, pillar or other place belonging to him or
under his control any of the words, letters or marks following, that
is to say:
(a) the words “Trinidad and Tobago Post”;
Fraudulently
removing or
using old stamps
and
counterfeiting
international
reply coupons
and postal
identity cards.
Penalty for
wrongfully
writing on
postal articles.
[1 of 1999].
Prohibition of
false notice as to
reception of
letters.
[1 of 1999].
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(b) the words “Letter Box” accompanied with words,
letters, or marks which signify or imply, or may
reasonably lead the public to believe, that it is a
Trinidad and Tobago Post letter box; or
(c) any words, letters, or marks which signify or
imply, or may reasonably lead the public to
believe, that any house or place is a Trinidad and
Tobago Post, or that any box is a Trinidad and
Tobago Post letter box,
and every person, when required by a notice given by Trinidad
and Tobago Post to remove or efface any such words, letters or
marks as mentioned above, or to remove or effectually close up
any letter box belonging to him or under his control which
has been a Trinidad and Tobago Post letter box, shall comply
with the request.
(2) Any person who acts in contravention of this section
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars
and, if the offence is continued after a previous conviction, to a
fine of ten dollars for every day during which the offence
so continues.
64. (1) Any person who wilfully molests or obstructs, or
incites anyone to molest or obstruct, an employee of Trinidad and
Tobago Post in the execution of his duty, or who whilst in any
Trinidad and Tobago Post or within any premises belonging to
any Trinidad and Tobago Post or used therewith, obstructs the
course of business of Trinidad and Tobago Post, is liable on
summary conviction to a fine of four hundred dollars and to
imprisonment for one month.
(2) Any employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post may
require any person guilty of an offence under this section to leave
a Trinidad and Tobago Post or any such premises as mentioned
above, and if the person refuses or fails to comply with the request,
the person is liable to a further fine of two hundred dollars and
may be removed by any employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post,
and all constables are required on demand to remove or assist in
removing every such person.
Offences in
Trinidad and
Tobago Post,
and obstruction
of employees of
Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
[1 of 1999].
Refusing to
leave Trinidad
and Tobago
Post.
[1 of 1999].
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65. Any person who, without being duly authorised to do so,
enters any part of Trinidad and Tobago Post reserved for the use
of the employees of the Trinidad and Tobago Post and servants
thereof and not intended to be open to the public is liable on
summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars.
66. Any person who solicits or endeavours to procure any other
person to commit an offence punishable on indictment under this
Act is liable to imprisonment for two years.
67.
to (Repealed by Act No. 1 of 1999).
73.
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Unlawfully
entering
Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
[1 of 1999].
Endeavouring to
procure
commission of
offence.
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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
POST OFFICE (BRITISH POSTAL ORDERS)
(ISSUE AND POUNDAGE) REGULATIONS
made under section 27(2)
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Post Office (British
Postal Orders) (Issue and Poundage) Regulations.
2. (1) British postal orders payable at all Post Offices in the
United Kingdom and in the British Possessions indicated in the
London Post Office Guide, shall be issued in Trinidad and Tobago
in denomination of ten, twelve and one-half, fifteen, twenty,
twenty-five, forty, fifty, sixty and seventy-five new pence and one
pound and two pounds sterling.
(2) In this regulation “the London Post Office Guide”
means the Post Office Guide issued by the British Post Office under
the direction of the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.
3. (1) British postal orders shall be subject to charges for
poundage which shall be calculated in the manner provided by
this regulation.
(2) Poundage charged from time to time in the United
Kingdom with respect to the postal orders specified in the first
column of the Table below shall be increased by the percentage
respectively shown in the second column of the Table and the
aggregate amount thereof rounded up to the nearest cent shall
be payable.
TABLE
First Column Second Column
Orders valued at 10 new pence to
20 new pence … … 20 per cent
” ” 25 new pence to
50 new pence … … 25 per cent
” ” 60 new pence to
75 new pence … … 371/2 per cent
” ” £1 to £2 … … 50 per cent
117/1974.
[25/1976].
Citation.
Denominations
of British
postal orders.
Poundage
payable on
British postal
orders.
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ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
REGULATION
1. Citation.
2. Interpretation.
PART I
INTRODUCTORY
3. Postage on postal article must be prepaid.
4. Double amount payable in case of deficient postage.
5. How postage payable.
6. Remission of postage.
7. Position of stamps, address, etc.
8. Packing.
9. Express delivery fee on outgoing parcels.
10. Treatment of irregular postal articles.
PART II
INLAND AND FOREIGN POST
(EXCEPT PARCELS)
RATES OF POSTAGE
11. Inland postage rates.
12. Exceptional unpaid postal articles.
13. External postage rates.
14. Late fee.
15. Limit on weight and dimensions.
PART III
POSTAL ARTICLES
SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO CERTAIN POSTAL ARTICLES
16. Special conditions as to postcards.
17. Certain postal articles subject to examination.
18. Special conditions as to printed paper postal articles.
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19. Special conditions as to small postal articles.
20. Special conditions as to articles for the blind.
21. Special conditions as to airmail postal articles.
UNDELIVERABLE POSTAL ARTICLES
22. Undeliverable inland postal articles to be returned to sender.
23. Special conditions as to postcards and printed matter.
24. Undeliverable postal articles returned from abroad.
25. Unregistered postal articles containing coin, jewellery, etc, liable to
registration fee.
26. Undeliverable foreign postal articles.
REDIRECTION
27. Conditions as to redirection.
28. Further conditions.
28A. Redirection fee.
29. Time limit.
Redirected postal articles irregularly dealt with.
30. Registered postal articles.
31. Exemption.
MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS AS TO POSTAL ARTICLES,
OTHER THAN PARCELS
32. Certificate of posting.
33. Issue and prices of registered letter envelopes and postcards.
PART IV
INLAND PARCELS
34. Rates for inland parcels.
35. Limits of weight and size for inland parcels.
36. Method of posting.
37. Inland parcels posted contrary to regulation 36.
38. Inland parcels posted irregularly—otherwise.
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39. Certificate of posting.
40. Method of addressing.
41. Certain articles may be posted as parcels only.
42. Mode of packing certain articles.
REDIRECTION
43. Conditions of redirection.
UNDELIVERABLE INLAND PARCELS
44. Undeliverable inland parcels.
45. Fee for enquiry in respect of inland parcels.
PART V
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH PARCEL POST
46. Rates of postage.
47. Rates for outgoing airmail parcels.
48. Limits of weights and dimensions of parcels.
49. Special conditions.
50. Mode of posting.
51. Treatment of parcels posted in letter boxes.
52. Return and disposal of undelivered parcels.
53. Treatment of irregular parcels.
54. Postal article posted contrary to regulation 66(n).
55. Fee for enquiry in respect of foreign parcels.
REDIRECTION
56. Redirection.
CUSTOMS AND OTHER CHARGES PAYABLE BY SENDER
57. Payment of Customs and other charges by senders.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO CASH-ON-DELIVERY PARCELS
58. Subject to arrangements made by Trinidad and Tobago Post.
Place of posting.
Limit upon amount of trade charge.
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59. Fee for cash-on-delivery service.
Cash-on-delivery fee to be prepaid.
Trade charge may not be cancelled.
Payments by addressee.
60. Duties of sender.
61. Delivery of cash-on-delivery parcels.
62. Payment to sender of trade charge collected.
63. Application for trade charge—time limit.
Certificate of posting required.
64. Redirection of cash-on-delivery parcels.
MISCELLANEOUS
65. Application of inland parcel Regulations.
PART VI
PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
66. List of prohibitions and restrictions.
PART VII
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH PARCEL POST
67. Definitions.
68. Declaration by poster.
69. Green labels to be placed on letter postal articles and small
postal articles.
70. Restriction on posting articles of merchandise.
71. Certain postal articles to be produced to the proper Officer of Customs
and Excise.
72. Entry by employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post.
73. Entry to be made by addressee of ad valorem goods.
74. Effect of failure of addressee to make entry.
75. Trinidad and Tobago Post obligations where duty payment refused.
76. Disposal of postal articles delivered to the Comptroller.
77. Duty and purchase tax received payable to Comptroller.
78. Additional fee for postal article received in Trinidad and Tobago.
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ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS—Continued
REGULATION
PART VIII
REGISTRATION
79. Certain postal articles may be registered.
Registered articles to be securely fastened.
Address.
80. Method of posting, etc.
81. Fee for registration of outgoing postal article.
82. Procedure for obtaining advice of delivery of registered postal article.
83. Irregular posting of a registered article.
84. Compulsory registration.
84A. Postal articles containing live animals.
85. Incoming postal articles.
PART IX
COMPENSATION AND INSURANCE
86. Compensation for loss.
87. Receipts to be signed for registered articles.
88. Compensation for loss of uninsured parcel.
89. Compensation—insured postal article.
90. Limit of insurance.
91. General provisions as to loss or damage.
92. Compulsory insurance.
93. Insurance offices.
94. Application of regulations 80 and 82.
95. Application of regulation 79.
96. Seals to be indentical and distinct.
97. Insured amount to be written on postal article.
98. Stamps.
99. Restricted delivery in certain cases.
100. Treatment of insured letters irregularly accepted.
INSURED LETTERS
101. Conditions of insurance.
102. Compulsory insurance.
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103.
to
106.
PART X
“POSTE RESTANTE”
107. Poste restante.
108. Postal articles addressed to certain places to be placed in Poste restante.
109. To be used by strangers and travellers only.
110. Certain postal articles deemed undeliverable.
111. Identification of applicants for postal articles.
112. Time of retention in Poste restante.
113. Demurrage fee of incoming parcels.
PART XI
PRIVATE LETTER BOXES AND BAGS
114. Private letter boxes—offices at which available.
Fees payable.
115. Method of address.
116. Box may not be transferred.
117. Mis-sorted or mis-delivered correspondence.
118. Damage to private box by renter.
119. Power to refuse or withdraw box.
120. Discontinuance of private box and return of key.
121. Issue of duplicate key.
122. Bulky correspondence.
123. Delivery into box equivalent to personal delivery.
PRIVATE LETTER BAGS
124. Private letter bags.
125. Rent payable for private letter bag.
PART XII
REPLY COUPONS
126. International reply coupons.
127. Exchange for stamps.
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128. Maximum number of coupons sold or exchanged in one day.
PART XIII
MONEY ORDER REGULATIONS
129. Money order offices.
130. Commission on money orders.
131. Form.
132. Limit for inland money orders.
133. Requisition for inland money orders.
134. Issue and advice.
135. Presenter to state remitter’s name.
ISSUE OF FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS
136. Limit for foreign money orders.
137. How amounts to be expressed.
138. Requisition for foreign money orders.
139. Trinidad and Tobago Post not responsible for consequences
of defects.
140. Issue of money order.
141. Additional amount to be paid on money orders sent through the
United Kingdom.
142. Regulations of country of payment to apply.
143. Irregular use of money order service.
144. Validity of money order payable abroad.
PAYMENT OF MONEY ORDERS (INLAND OR FOREIGN)
145. Payment at Trinidad and Tobago Post.
146. Method of payment
147. Payment through bank.
148. Delay in payment in certain cases.
149. Illiterate payee.
150. (Revoked by LN 116/1980).
151. Conversion rates for money orders issued in the United States
of America.
152. Non-liability of Trinidad and Tobago Post.
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS—Continued
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153. Advice of payment of money order.
154. Payment transferred to another office.
155. Loss of a money order.
156. Duplicate money orders.
157. Indemnity to be given.
158. Procedure for stopping payment of a money order.
159. Void orders.
160. Repayment of money order not to be effected until authorised.
161. Expiration of money orders issued abroad.
PART XIV
TELEGRAPH MONEY ORDERS
162. Maximum amount of telegraph money orders.
163. Fee payable.
164. Remitter may send private communication in advice telegram.
165. Full address to be furnished.
166. Poste restante.
167. Advice of payment.
168. Issuing Trinidad and Tobago Posts for telegraph money orders.
169. Where payable.
170. General Regulations to apply to United Kingdom telegraph orders.
171. Non-liability of Trinidad and Tobago Post.
PART XV
POSTAL ORDERS
172. Trinidad and Tobago Posts transacting postal order business.
173. Denominations of inland postal orders.
174. Commission payable.
175. Extension of value by postage stamps.
176. Extension of value by postage stamps.
177. Period of validity (inland).
178. (British).
179. Trinidad and Tobago Post not liable after postal order once paid.
180. Payment to the public.
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181. Presenter to sign personally.
182. Erasure or alteration on postal order a bar to payment.
183. Repayment to sender.
184. Postal orders not negotiable.
PART XVI
GENERAL
185. Special provisions in ease of death of addressee of postal articles.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
FOURTH SCHEDULE.
FIFTH SCHEDULE.
SIXTH SCHEDULE.
SEVENTH SCHEDULE.
EIGHTH SCHEDULE.
NINTH SCHEDULE.
TENTH SCHEDULE.
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS—Continued
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POST REGULATIONS
made under section 73
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Trinidad and
Tobago Post Regulations.
2. In these Regulations—
“airmail postal article” means an outgoing postal article conveyed
or intended to be conveyed through any part of its course in
the post by an airmail service;
“airmail parcel” means a postal article which is posted at a
Trinidad and Tobago Post as a parcel in accordance with the
provisions of these Regulations, or is received at a
Trinidad and Tobago Post from abroad by Parcel Post and
is conveyed or intended to be conveyed through any part of
its course in the post by an airmail service;
“airmail service” means a service established by or under the
direction of Trinidad and Tobago Post for the conveyance
of mails by air;
“Article for the Blind” means a postal article containing books
and papers impressed or intended to be impressed in
“Braille” or other special type or any article specially adapted
for the use of the blind;
“business reply letter” means a letter, postcard or printed postal
article which—
(a) is addressed to a person who has made provision
to the satisfaction of Trinidad and Tobago Post
for the payment of postage in accordance with
the provisions of these Regulations on business
reply letters received by him;
*These Regulations have been amended by Gazettes 2.5.40, 18.7.40, 27.12.40, 30.4.42, 4.7.42,
12.8.43, GN. 33/1945, 61/1948, 40/1949, 179/1949, 61/1950, 41/1952, 150/1952, 30/1953,
180/1955, 51/1956, 163/1957, 192/1957, 150/1959, 172/1959, 56/1960, 20/1962, 13 of 1963,
130/1963, 43/1964, 140/1966, 22/1967, 145/1967, 1 of 1968, 209/1968, 117/1971, 23/1972, 24/
1972, 117/1974, 160/1975, 34/1979, 116/1980, 4/1985, 23/1985, 6 of 1989, 3 of 1994, 1 of 1999.
*G. 8.12.38.
Citation.
Interpretation.
[30/1953
192/1957
117/1971
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(b) contains or has thereon only a communication sent
by way of a reply to a communication from the
addressee; and
(c) is distinguished or marked in such manner as
Trinidad and Tobago Post may direct;
“coin” means coin of all kinds whether or not current in Trinidad
and Tobago or elsewhere, except such as is used or designed
for purposes of ornament;
“fictitious postage stamp” has the meaning assigned to the term
“fictitious stamp” by section 60(4) of the Act;
“gold bullion” and “silver bullion” mean uncoined and
unmanufactured gold or silver (as the case may be);
“incoming”, applied to a postal article of any description, means
received at a Trinidad and Tobago Post through the post;
“insured letter” and “insured box”, respectively, include any
insured letter and insured box which is for the time being
transmissible under the provisions of the Postal Union
Agreement for the exchange of insured letters and boxes
for the time being in force, and the detailed Regulations
made thereunder;
“insured parcel” means a parcel in respect of which a
compensation fee is paid;
“jewellery” means—
(a) gold, silver or platinum in a manufactured state,
that is to say, a state in which value is added to
the raw material by skilled workmanship; and in
this definition are included any coins used or
designed for purposes of ornament;
(b) diamonds and precious stones;
(c) watches entirely or mainly composed of gold,
silver or platinum; and
(d) any article of a like nature which, apart
from workmanship, has an intrinsic or
marketable value;
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“letter” includes any communication in the nature of actual and
personal correspondence;
“outgoing” applied to a postal article of any description means
posted in Trinidad and Tobago;
“parcel” means a postal article which is posted at a Trinidad and
Tobago Post as a parcel in accordance with the provisions
of these Regulations, or is received at a Trinidad and Tobago
Post from abroad by Parcel Post;
“postcard” means a card recognised as a postcard in accordance
with the terms of the Postal Union Convention.
PART I
INTRODUCTORY
3. Subject to these Regulations, the postage payable on every
postal article must be prepaid.
4. Subject to these Regulations—
(a) any letter or postcard upon which no part, or a
part only, of the postage payable thereon is prepaid
shall be charged with double the amount of the
deficient postage;
(b) any airmail postal article upon which no part, or
a part only, of the postage payable thereon is
prepaid shall be charged with double the amount
of the deficient postage but if less than one-half
of the amount of postage due is prepaid, Trinidad
and Tobago Post may in its discretion send the
postal article by ordinary mail;
(c) any outgoing printed paper postal article or small
postal article upon which no part, or a part only,
of the postage payable thereon is prepaid may be
detained and returned or given up to the sender
or be forwarded charged with double the amount
of the deficient postage, as Trinidad and Tobago
Post may, in its discretion, direct;
Postage on
postal article
must be prepaid.
Double amount
payable in case
of deficient
postage.
[117/1971
23/1972
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(d) any incoming printed paper postal article or small
postal article upon which no part, or a part only,
of the postage payable thereon is prepaid may be
detained and returned to the country of origin or
be forwarded charged with double the amount of
the deficient postage as Trinidad and Tobago
Post may, in its discretion, direct;
(e) correspondence, other than letters and single
postcards, which is unpaid or insufficiently
prepaid shall not be forwarded by Trinidad
and Tobago Post but may be returned to the
sender if practicable;
(f) the charge upon any postal article as mentioned
above upon which no part or part only of the
postage payable thereon is prepaid shall not in
any case be less than the sum of ten cents.
5. (1) Postage maybe prepaid—
(a) by adhesive postage stamps;
(b) by impressions of stamping machines working
under the direction or by the permission of
Trinidad and Tobago Post;
(c) by the use of a stamped envelope, cover, postcard,
or other postal form;
(d) by the use of an embossed or impressed stamp
cut out of or otherwise detached from an envelope,
cover, postcard, or other postal form; or
(e) on a printed postal article, by a printed impression
or other process authorised by Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
Provided that no stamp indicating on the face thereof
payment of a registration fee as well as postage shall be used in
payment of postage on any unregistered postal article.
(2) A “postal form” means a form issued by or under the
authority of Trinidad and Tobago Post.
How postage
payable.
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6. Trinidad and Tobago Post may in any case in which he
may consider it just or reasonable to do so remit any postage or
any sum made payable under these Regulations.
7. Where postage is prepaid by adhesive postage stamps, or
by some other authorised process, the stamps or impressions shall
as far as possible be affixed to the upper right hand corner of the
address side. The address of the recipient as well as indications
relating to the postal service must likewise appear on the address
side, of which the right-hand half at least is reserved for those
indications. Subject to the provisions of any other regulations
relating to postal articles, the sender may make use of the back
and of the left-hand of the address side.
8. Every postal article must be made up and secured in such
manner as in the opinion of Trinidad and Tobago Post is
calculated to prevent injury to any other postal article in course of
conveyance, or to any receptacle in which the same is conveyed, or
to an employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post or other person who
may deal with such postal article and where Trinidad and Tobago
Post has made any special Rules in relation to the packing of any
particular postal article or article, such Rules shall be observed.
9. Upon every outgoing postal article, not exceeding five
kilogrammes in weight or such other weight as Trinidad and Tobago
Post may from time to time prescribe, addressed to any country or
place abroad in which delivery of postal articles is effected by
special messenger, marked with the words “express delivery” or
with such other words as may indicate the desire of the sender
that the postal article may be delivered by special messenger,
there shall be charged and prepaid by means of postage stamps
affixed to the postal article such fees as Trinidad and Tobago
Post shall direct.
10. Except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, postal
articles which are posted otherwise than in conformity with the
provisions of these Regulations may be either detained and
Remission of
postage.
Position of
stamps,
address, etc.
Packing.
Express delivery
fee on outgoing
parcels.
[116/1980].
Treatment of
irregular postal
articles.
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returned or given up to the senders thereof, or dealt with or
disposed of in such other manner as may be authorised by
Trinidad and Tobago Post.
PART II
INLAND AND FOREIGN POST (EXCEPT PARCELS)
RATES OF POSTAGE
11. There shall be charged and paid on postal articles
addressed to any place in Trinidad and Tobago the rates of postage
as set out in the Eighth Schedule.
12. The provisions of these Regulations with reference to
prepayment of postage shall not apply to business reply letters
addressed to any place in Trinidad and Tobago: Provided that the
postage charged on every such letter if not prepaid shall be the
postage otherwise chargeable thereon together with an additional
charge of twenty cents.
13. (1) There shall be charged and paid on postal articles
(other than air mail postal articles) addressed to places outside
Trinidad and Tobago the rates of postage as set out in the Ninth
Schedule.
(2) There shall be charged and paid on postal articles
addressed to the countries in the various zones as set out in the
Tenth Schedule, the rates of postage as set out in the Sixth Schedule.
14. At the General Trinidad and Tobago Post in Port-of-Spain
postal articles (other than parcels or registered or insured postal
articles) for places outside Trinidad and Tobago may on payment
of a special late fee of forty cents (payable by means of stamps
affixed to the postal article) be posted after the advertised time of
closing the mail up to such an hour as Trinidad and Tobago Post
may by notice appoint.
Inland postage
rates.
[192/1957
145/1967
209/1968
117/1971
23/1972].
Eighth
Schedule.
Exceptional
unpaid postal
articles.
[51/1980
4/1985
23/1985].
External
postage rates.
[41/1952
30/1953
192/1957
145/1967
209/1968
117/1971
23/1972
4/1985
23/1985].
Ninth Schedule.
Tenth Schedule.
Sixth Schedule.
Late fee.
[51/1980
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15. (1) No postal article may be forwarded or delivered
where it exceeds the following respective weight or dimensions:
(a) in the case of a letter addressed to any place in
Trinidad and Tobago or any foreign country
or place—
(i) 2 kilogrammes in weight;
(ii) 900 millimetres in length, width and
depth combined provided that the
greatest dimension shall not exceed
600 millimetres;
(iii) where such letter is in roll form 1,040 milli-
metres in length plus twice the diameter
provided that the greatest dimension shall
not exceed 900 millimetres;
(b) in the case of postcards 105 millimetres by
148 millimetres with a tolerance of 2 millimetres;
(c) in the case of printed papers addressed to any
place in Trinidad and Tobago or any foreign
country or place—
(i) 2 kilogrammes in weight except for printed
books and pamphlets which shall not
exceed 5 kilogrammes;
(ii) 900 millimetres in length, width, and
depth combined provided that the
greatest dimension shall not exceed
600 millimetres;
(iii) where such printed paper is in roll form
1,040 millimetres in length plus twice the
diameter provided that the greatest
dimension shall not exceed 900
millimetres;
(d) in the case of articles for the blind—
(i) 7 kilogrammes in weight;
Limit on weight
and dimesions.
[150/1959
145/1967
117/1971
23/1972
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(ii) 900 millimetres in length, width and
depth combined provided that the
greatest dimension shall not exceed
600 millimetres;
(iii) where such article is in roll form
1,040 millimetres in length, plus twice
the diameter provided that the
greatest dimension shall not exceed
900 millimetres;
(e) in the case of small postal articles—
(i) 1 kilogramme in weight;
(ii) 900 millimetres in length, width and
depth combined provided that the
greatest dimension shall not exceed
600 millimetres;
(iii) where such postal article is in roll form
1,040 millimetres in length, plus twice
the diameter provided that the
greatest dimension shall not exceed
900 millimetres.
(2) No postal article may be accepted if the surface
measurement is less than 900 millimetres by 140 millimetres
except in roll form in which case it shall not be accepted if the
length plus twice the diameter is less than 170 millimetres, but the
greatest dimension may be less than 100 millimetres.
PART III
POSTAL ARTICLES
SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO CERTAIN POSTAL ARTICLES
16. The following regulations shall apply to postcards:
(a) no writing except the address and any postal
directions recognised by the Postal Union
Convention, and no printing except that of any of
the matters mentioned above, shall appear on the
right-hand half of the face of a postcard;
Special
conditions as to
postcards.
[117/1971
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(b) it shall not be necessary for postcards of private
manufacture to bear on the face thereof the word
“Postcard” or its equivalent in another language;
(c) a postcard shall be made of cardboard or paper
stout enough not to hinder its manipulation;
(d) nothing whatever shall be in any manner attached
to a postcard except—
(i) postage stamps in payment of postage or
of sums payable for registration or for
advice of delivery or for express delivery;
(ii) illustrations, photographs, stamps of any
kinds, address labels or slips to fold back
for address purposes, labels and cuttings
of any kind. However, stamps likely to be
mistaken for stamps used for the payment
of postage shall not be affixed to the
address side of a postcard. All such articles
shall be of such nature as not to alter the
character of the postcard, and shall consist
of paper or other very thin substance and
shall adhere completely to the postcard.
With the exception of address labels or slips
these articles may only be affixed to the
back or to the left-hand half of the address
side of the postcard;
(e) a postcard may not be folded, nor may it be cut or
altered in such a way as to make it smaller than
the prescribed size;
(f) a postcard may not be fastened against inspection
in any way or enclosed in a cover of any kind;
(g) (i) each of the two halves of a reply postcard
must comply with the conditions laid down
for single postcards. One-half must be
doubled over the other but not fastened in
any way;
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(ii) the reply half of a reply-paid card may not
be registered by the original sender of
the card;
(iii) the reply half of a reply-paid card is
available for transmission to the country
of origin only, provided that it was, in the
first instance, received attached to the other
half. If addressed to another country it shall
be treated as an unpaid postcard. An
ordinary international postcard of one
country posted in another, shall be treated
as an unpaid postcard;
(h) if any postcard is sent by post otherwise than in
conformity with the provisions of this regulation
it shall be dealt with and charged as a letter.
17. Every printed paper postal article and small postal article
shall be subject to examination in the post, and subject to these
Regulations shall not contain anything sealed or otherwise
closed against examination or contain or bear anything in the
nature of a letter.
18. (1) In these Regulations, the expression “printed paper
postal article” means a postal article consisting of or containing—
(a) letter post items exchanged between pupils of
schools and sent through the principals of the
schools concerned;
(b) pupils’ exercises in the original or with corrections
but without any note which does not relate directly
to the performance of the work;
(c) manuscripts of works for newspapers;
(d) musical scores or sheets of music in manuscript.
(2) The following may not be sent as printed papers:
(a) papers obtained by means of a typewriter of
any type;
Certain postal
articles subject
to examination.
[145/1967
117/1971
23/1972].
Special
conditions as to
printed paper
postal articles.
[145/1967
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(b) papers obtained by means of tracing, by
handwriting or by typewriting on any type of
machine, as well as heliography;
(c) copies obtained by means of stamps with or
without movable type;
(d) articles of stationery, properly so called, bearing
reproductions when it seems clear that the printed
part is not the essential part of the article;
(e) films and sound recordings.
(3) Several copies obtained by admissible processes, may
be sent together in a single printed papers item; but shall not bear
the names and addresses of different senders or addresses.
(4) Cards bearing the title “Carte Postale”, or the
equivalent of this title in any language, may be admitted at the
printed paper rate, if they satisfy the general conditions applicable
to printed papers rate and to printed papers. Those which do not
fulfil these conditions may be treated as postcards or in the
appropriate case as letters.
(5) It is permissible to show on printed papers, by
any process—
(a) the name and address of the sender and the
addresses with or without showing the status,
profession and style;
(b) the place and date of despatch of the item;
(c) the serial or registration number referring solely
to the item.
(6) In addition to these particulars it is permitted—
(a) to delete, mark or underline certain words or
certain parts of the printed text;
(b) to correct printing errors.
(7) The additions and corrections specified in
subregulations (5) and (6) should have a direct bearing on the
content of the reproduction; they should not be of such a nature as
to constitute a conventional language.
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(8) It is also premissible to show or to add—
(a) on order forms, subscription forms or offers in
respect of published works, books, newspapers,
engravings, pieces of music: the works and the
number of copies asked for or offered, the price,
the method of payment, the edition, the names of
the authors and of the publishers, the catalogue
number and the words “paper covered”, “stiff
covered” or “bound”;
(b) on the forms used by the lending services of
libraries: the titles of the works, the number of
copies asked for or sent, the names of the authors
and of the publishers, the catalogue numbers, the
number of days allowed for reading, the name of
the person wishing to consult the work in
question;
(c) on illustrated printed cards, on printed visiting
cards and on printed cards expressing felicitations
or condolences: conventional formulas of
courtesy expressed in five words of five initials
at the most;
(d) on printed literary and artistic productions: a
dedication consisting of a simple conventional
expression of regard;
(e) on cuttings from newspapers and periodicals: the
title, date, number and address of the publication
from which the article is taken;
(f) on advices of the departures and arrivals of ships
and aircraft: the dates and times of departures and
arrivals and the names of the ships, aircraft, ports
of departure, call and arrival;
(g) on travellers’ advices: the name of the traveller,
the time and place of his intended visit and the
address at which he is staying;
(h) in proofs of printing: alterations and additions
concerned with the correction, layout and
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printing as well as notes such as “Passed for
press”, “Read—Passed for press” or any similar
note concerned with the production of the work;
in the case of lack of space the additions may be
made on special sheets;
(i) in price-lists, tenders for advertisements, stock
and share lists, market quotations, trade circulars
and prospectuses: figures; and other notes giving
essential elements of the price;
(j) on advices of change of address: the old and the
new addresses and the date of the change.
(9) Finally, it is permitted to enclose—
(a) with all printed papers: a card, envelope or
wrapper bearing the printed address of the sender
of the item, all of which may be prepaid for return
by means of postage stamps of the country of
destination of the item;
(b) with literary or artistic printed works: the relative
open invoice, reduced to its essential elements
together with a deposit note bearing the printed
particulars of a current postal account or an
international money order form of the country of
destination of the item, on which it is also
permissible, after it has been agreed by the
Administrations concerned, to show the amount
to be paid and the address of the beneficiary of
the money order;
(c) with fashion papers: cut-out pattern forming,
according to the indications appearing on them,
an integral part of the copy of the paper with
which they are sent.
(10) Printed papers of the form, consistency and size of a
postcard may be sent unenclosed without wrapper or envelope.
The same method of despatch is allowed for printed papers so
folded that they cannot become unfolded during conveyance.
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(11) The right-hand half at least of the front of printed
papers sent in the form of cards, including illustrated cards
benefiting by the reduced charge, is reserved for the address of the
addressee and for service instructions or labels.
(12) Items other than letters or postcards should be made
up in such a way that their contents are sufficiently protected but
so as not to hinder a quick and easy verification.
(13) They should be placed either in a wrapper, on a roller
or between cardboard; in open bags, boxes, envelopes or containers,
or in closed, unsealed bags, boxes, envelopes or containers, but
which can be easily opened and reclosed without being dangerous;
or shall be done up with a string which is easy to untie.
(14) Exceptionally, articles which would be spoilt if packed
according to the general rules, may be admitted in a hermetically
sealed packing and Trinidad and Tobago Post may require the
sender or the addressee to assist in the check of the contents,
either by opening certain of the items indicated by him or in
some other satisfactory manner.
19. (1) In these Regulations, the expression “small postal
article means a postal article which consists of or contains goods
or articles of merchandise and contains nothing else except an open
invoice reduced to its simplest form, the name and address of the
sender and the addressee, and any prescribed Customs declaration.
(2) No small postal article shall contain postage stamps
or forms indicating prepayment whether obliterated or not or any
paper representing monetary value or coin, bank-notes, currency
notes, negotiable instruments payable to bearer, platinum, gold or
silver manufactured or not, precious stones, jewels or other
precious articles.
(3) Small postal articles may be registered but may not
be insured.
(4) Every small postal article shall bear on the outside
the name and address of the sender and the addressee, and for
Special
conditions as to
small postal
articles.
[117/197
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Customs purposes shall bear such label and shall have attached
or contain such declaration, if any, as shall be required by
Trinidad and Tobago Post.
20. Postal articles intended for transmission as Articles for
the Blind shall—
(a) consist only of Articles for the Blind, and may
not contain any communcation either in writing
or printed in ordinary type, except the title, date
of publication, serial number, names and
addresses of the manufacturer, printer or
publisher, price and table of contents of the article
and any key to, or instructions for, the use of the
special type, or any enclosure except a label for
the return of the postal article;
(b) bear on the outside thereof the inscription
“Literature for the Blind” (whether the contents
consists of literature or other permitted articles)
and the written or printed name of the sender;
(c) be posted either without a cover or in a cover open
at both ends which can be easily removed for the
purposes of examination.
In all other respects the regulations regarding printed
papers shall apply.
21. (1) An air mail postal article must bear an “air mail” label
or be marked with the words “air mail” or with such other words
as may indicate the desire of the sender that the postal article
should be conveyed by air mail service.
(2) An air mail postal article shall be conveyed in
accordance with such instructions as may from time to time be
notified by Trinidad and Tobago Post.
UNDELIVERABLE POSTAL ARTICLES
22. (1) Except as provided in regulation 23, inland postal
articles (other than parcels) which cannot be delivered to the
Special
conditions as to
articles for the
blind.
[192/1957].
Special
conditions as to
airmail postal
articles.
Undeliverable
inland postal
articles to be
returned to
sender.
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addressee shall, if a name and address appear on the outside thereof,
be returned unopened to the person or address indicated, but
otherwise shall be opened by Trinidad and Tobago Post.
(2) Where any inland postal article upon being opened as
mentioned above is found to contain the name and address of the
sender, Trinidad and Tobago Post shall return the postal article to
the sender, but otherwise shall destroy it; but an enclosure of
intrinsic value contained in any such postal article not found to
contain the name and address of the sender shall be retained for a
period of three months to abide the claim of the sender, and on the
expiry of this period, in lieu of being destroyed, may if Trinidad
and Tobago Post so directs, be sold by public auction and the
proceeds of sale paid to the Comptroller of Accounts.
(3) Except as in these Regulations or otherwise provided
by law no additional postage shall be charged on any postal article
returned under this regulation, it shall not be delivered except
charges due shall be paid before delivery.
23. Notwithstanding anything contained in regulation 22,
undeliverable postcards, printed papers and newspapers, chargeable
with postage not exceeding the minimum amount chargeable on
such items shall not be returned to the sender unless his name and
address appear on the outside of the postal article, together with a
request for return in case of non-delivery. Where any postal article
is returned under this regulation, it shall not be delivered except
upon payment of additional postage equal to the original postage.
24. Regulations 22 and 23 shall apply to postal articles
(other than parcels) posted in Trinidad and Tobago and returned
from abroad.
25. An unregistered postal article addressed or due to be
returned to any person in Trinidad and Tobago that is opened and
found to contain coin, jewellery, currency or bank notes is liable
to a registration fee equal to twice the registration fee that would
have been paid if the postal article had been registered, less any
Special
conditions as to
postcards and
printed matter.
[160/1975
116/1980].
Undeliverable
postal articles
returned from
abroad.
Unregistered
postal articles
containing coin,
jewellery, etc.,
liable to
registration fee.
[41/1952
192/1957
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amount prepaid in excess of postage; such fee must be paid before
the postal article is delivered to the addressee or the sender.
26. Trinidad and Tobago Post shall return any undeliverable
postal article (not being a parcel) received from any place outside
Trinidad and Tobago to the country of origin by the first opportunity,
subject always to any other procedure under any arrangement with
the Government or Postal Administration of any other country for
the time being in force; but any postal article addressed to a deceased
person shall either be delivered to any person who Trinidad and
Tobago Post is satisfied is the legal personal representative of the
addressee or else dealt with as an undeliverable postal article.
REDIRECTION
27. Any postal article, other than a parcel may be redirected
from its original address, or any substituted address, to the same
addressee at any other address unless the sender has forbidden
redirection by means of a note to that effect on the address side of
the postal article in a language known in the country of destination.
28. Every redirected postal article, other than a parcel, if fully
prepaid for its first transmission, shall be chargeable on delivery
with the difference (if any) between the postage prepaid on the
first transmission and the postage chargeable if the postal article
has been originally addressed to the new destination. Any postal
article unpaid or insufficiently prepaid for its first transmission
shall be charged on delivery with double the deficient postage which
would have been due if it had been originally addressed to the new
destination. The expression “first transmission” shall be deemed
to include transmission to an address within the country in which
the postal article was posted.
28A. Notwithstanding regulation 28, there shall be charged on
postal articles redirected from one address in Trinidad and
Tobago to another such address a redirection fee of two dollars
and fifty cents.
Undeliverable
foreign postal
articles.
Conditions as to
redirection.
Further
conditions.
Redirection fee.
[3 of 1994].
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29. (1) Where a postal article is redirected by the addressee’s
agent, it must be reposted not later than the day following that on
which it is delivered, exclusive of Sundays and Public Holidays.
(2) Where any redirected postal article is not reposted
within the time allowed by this regulation, or where any postal
article having been reposted as mentioned above appears to have
been opened or tampered with, it shall be deemed to have been
posted afresh, and shall be chargeable accordingly.
30. (1) Registered and insured postal articles shall be
subject to the same Regulations as other postal articles of the like
description as regards additional postal charges for redirection,
provided that they are reposted by being handed in at a Trinidad
and Tobago Post not later than the day after delivery, exclusive of
Sundays and Public Holidays.
(2) Where any registered or insured postal article which
has been redirected is not reposted within the time allowed as
mentioned above, it shall be deemed to be freshly posted and
chargeable with fresh postage and registration and insurance
fees accordingly.
(3) Where any registered or insured postal article which
has been redirected is not handed in at a Trinidad and Tobago Post,
it shall be treated in all respects as a letter intended for registration
but irregularly posted. In any such case no compensation shall be
payable in respect of the loss or damage of the postal article or the
contents thereof.
31. Letters for members of the Defence Force on actual service
shall be exempt from any charge for redirection, and shall not be
subject to any restriction as to the time of reposting.
MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS AS TO POSTAL ARTICLES,
OTHER THAN PARCELS
32. (1) Any person who desires proof that an unregistered
postal article has been posted to a particular person must, when
handing in the postal article, ask for a certificate of posting.
A single certificate in respect of several postal articles of the
same kind posted at one and the same time will be issued if a
Time limit.
Redirected
Postal articles
irregularly
dealt with.
Registered
postal articles.
[4/1985
23/1985].
Exemption.
Certificate of
posting.
[41/1952
192/1957
160 1975
51/1980
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
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list of the names and addresses borne by the postal articles be
presented with them.
(2) There shall be charged for each certificate of posting
a fee of one dollar for each postal article covered by the certificate,
and the fee shall be paid by means of a postage stamp which shall
be affixed by the sender to the form of certificate.
(3) The particulars required by the form of certificate shall
be filled in by the sender.
(4) Any person who desires to make an application or
an enquiry in respect of any unregistered postal article shall be
required to pay a fee of two dollars for inland postal articles and
two dollars and fifty cents for postal articles addressed to places
outside Trinidad and Tobago, in addition to which air mail
surcharge or the charge for telegram must be paid if the enquiry
is to be made through that means.
33. Registered letter envelopes shall be issued at all Trinidad
and Tobago Posts for sale to the public at the following prices:
Registered letter envelopes with a registration fee of
seventy cents paid … … …eighty cents each.
PART IV
INLAND PARCELS
34. The rates of postage on inland parcels shall be as follows:
(a) not exceeding 500 grammes in weight, three dollars;
(b) for each additional 500 grammes or part thereof
in weight, one dollar.
35. (1) No inland parcel shall be forwarded or delivered by
post if it exceeds ten kilogrammes in weight, or if it exceeds the
following dimensions, that is to say:
Three feet six inches in length and six feet in length
and girth combined.
Issue and prices
of registered
letter envelopes
and postcards,
[41/1952
150/1952
192/1957
209/ 1968
117/1971
23/1972
160/1975
51/1980
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985].
Rates for inland
parcels.
[192/1957
209/1968
51/1980
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
Limits and
weight and size
for inland
parcels.
[192/1957
150/1959
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(2) No inland parcel shall be smaller than the minimum
size laid down for postal articles other than parcels.
36. An inland parcel may not be posted in a letter box.
It shall be marked “Parcel Post” and presented at the counter of a
Trinidad and Tobago Post.
37. If any postal article apparently intended for transmission
as an inland parcel is posted otherwise than in accordance with
regulation 36 Trinidad and Tobago Post shall—
(i) if the parcel is fully prepaid at the
appropriate rate and is admissible by such
post, forward the parcel as a letter, printed
paper or newspaper; or
(ii) if the parcel is insufficiently prepaid at the
rate applicable to letters, printed papers or
newspapers, but is otherwise admissible by
any such post, forward the parcel to the
addressee, who shall pay to Trinidad and
Tobago Post, a sum equal to double the
deficiency at the appropriate rate or to the
deficient postage at the parcel post rate.
38. In all other cases where a postal article apparently intended
for transmission as an inland parcel is posted contrary to these
Regulations it shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions
of regulation 44 subject nevertheless (if the postal articles are
returned to the sender) to a charge equal to double the amount of
any deficient postage at the lowest appropriate rate.
39. A certificate of posting may be obtained for any of
inland parcel.
40. The address of every inland parcel shall be clearly written
in English. A parcel bearing an address otherwise written shall not
be accepted unless a translation of the address is added. The address
shall be written on the parcel itself, and not merely on a label.
Method of
posting.
Inland parcels
posted
contrary to
regulation 36.
[4/1985
23/1985].
Inland parcels
posted
irregularly—
otherwise.
Certificate of
posting.
Method of
addressing.
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41. Eggs, fish, meat, fruit and vegetables are transmissible
inland by parcel post only.
42. The following regulations apply to the articles named
when transmitted by inland parcel post:
(a) eggs shall be packed in a wooden or other rigid
box with suitable partitions, with a well-fitted lid,
and each egg wrapped separately in newspaper
or other soft material the eggs being placed on
end, and the vacant spaces in the box filled with
newspaper or cotton waste. The parcel shall be
marked “Eggs”;
(b) fish and meat—Parcels of fish and meat shall be
marked “Perishable” and must be so packed as to
prevent contact of the contents with other postal
articles or leakage of any moisture;
(c) flowers shall be enclosed in boxes of cardboard,
wood or metal;
(d) fruit must be so packed that the juice cannot
exude. Metal boxes with tightly fitting lids must
be used for soft fruit and the boxes must be
securely tied with string crossing the lids in two
directions. Parcels of fruit shall be marked “Fruit”;
(e) hats, millinery and similar articles shall be packed
in rigid boxes of wood or other material, or in
stout “leather board” boxes with lids extending
about two-thirds of the depth of the box or in
strong cardboard boxes protected externally by
light cross bars of wood consisting of two frames
placed at right angles to one another and
fastened together where they cross at the top and
the bottom;
(f) musical instruments shall be enclosed in stout
wooden cases with sufficient soft internal packing
to prevent movement and to prevent damage
through jolting;
Certain articles
may be posted
as parcels only.
Mode of
packing certain
articles.
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(g) pictures in frames shall be protected at the front
and back by stout wooden boards each rather
larger than the frames. Soft packing shall be
placed firmly between the corners of the frame
and the boards but not so as to press on the glass.
REDIRECTION
43. (1) Inland parcels may be redirected without charge within
the delivery of the same Trinidad and Tobago Post of the original
addressee and provided they are redirected within one day of the
original delivery or such further time as Trinidad and Tobago Post
may allow. Inland parcels are in all other cases subject to fresh
postage on redirection.
(2) Where delivery of an inland parcel is refused by the
addressee, and is afterwards accepted by him it shall be treated as
a redirected parcel liable to fresh postage.
UNDELIVERABLE INLAND PARCELS
44. Undeliverable inland parcels and small postal articles
bearing or containing the name and address of the sender shall be
returned to the sender who shall pay therefor a charge equal to five
dollars. Inland parcels and small postal articles which do not bear
or contain the name and address of the sender shall be retained for
three calendar months. If not applied for before the expiry of this
period, the contents shall be disposed of by public auction where
this course is warranted and the net proceeds credited to Trinidad
and Tobago Post funds, but otherwise shall be destroyed or
otherwise dealt with as the President may direct. Undeliverable
inland parcels and small postal articles containing articles of a
perishable nature shall be dealt with as may be requisite.
45. (1) Every person who desires to make an application or
enquiry in respect of any inland parcel shall pay a fee of two dollars
for each such application or enquiry.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subregulation (1)
where the application or enquiry relates to more than one inland
Conditions of
redirection.
Undeliverable
inland parcels.
[6 of 1989].
Fee for enquiry
in respect of
inland parcels.
[150/1959
160/1975
51/1980
4/1985
23/1985
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parcel posted at the same time at the same Trinidad and Tobago
Post by the same sender and addressed to the same addressee and
sent by the same route, there shall be payable in respect of any
such application or enquiry the said fee of two dollars.
(3) Trinidad and Tobago Post or any employee of
Trinidad and Tobago Post duly authorised in writing by him shall,
if he finds that the postal service is responsible for the non-delivery
of any inland parcel, cause to be refunded to the person applying
or enquiring, as the case may be any fee paid in accordance with
subregulation (1) or (2).
PART V
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH PARCEL POST
46. The postage rates charged and payable on outgoing surface
parcels being sent to a destination either by direct route or
through another country shall be determined in accordance with
the First Schedule.
47. The postage rates charged and payable on outgoing
airmail parcels to a destination either being sent by direct route or
through another country shall be determined in accordance with
the Seventh Schedule.
48. (1) No foreign parcel shall exceed the weight or
dimensions permitted to be received by post in the country to which
the parcel is addressed.
(2) Subject to subregulation (1)—
(a) no parcel may exceed ten kilogrammes in weight
or 1.05 metres of any dimension and two metres
for the sum of the length and the greatest
circumference measured in a direction other than
that of the length;
(b) no parcel shall be accepted if the dimensions are
less than those set out in regulation 14(2).
Rates of
postage.
[30/1953
4/1985
23/1985].
First Schedule.
Rates for
outgoing airmail
parcels.
[30/1953
192/1957
4/1985
23/1985].
Seventh
Schedule.
Limits of
weights and
dimensions of
parcels.
[150/1959
116/1980
4/1985
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49. In addition to the prohibitions and conditions as to packing
contained in the regulations relating to inland and insured parcels,
there shall not be posted or conveyed or delivered by post—
(a) any foreign parcel containing coin or gold bullion
exceeding twenty-five dollars in value, or any
parcel containing silver bullion or silver partly
manufactured, exceeding one hundred dollars
in value;
(b) any foreign parcel containing or bearing any letter
or other document in the nature of a personal
communication, except so far as may be permitted
by the arrangement with reference to the
transmission of parcels between Trinidad and
Tobago and any country or place.
50. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the
following provisions shall apply to the posting of foreign parcels:
(a) the parcel shall be posted by being handed in at a
Trinidad and Tobago Post;
(b) the parcel must bear the name and full address of
the addressee, and must be packed in such
manner and form as may be required and in
accordance with such directions as may be given
by Trinidad and Tobago Post from time to time
in that behalf;
(c) in addition to the requirements of regulation 68,
the sender of a foreign parcel may also be
required to fill up a despatch note in such form as
Trinidad and Tobago Post may direct;
(d) every air parcel shall have the words “Par Avion”
or “by Air-mail” clearly written on it in blue before
being accepted at a Trinidad and Tobago Post.
51. Any outgoing postal article transmissible by parcel post,
which from any words or marks thereon, or other external evidence,
appears to have been intended for transmission as a parcel, and
has not been tendered for transmission as a parcel, but has been
Special
conditions.
[51/1980].
Mode of
posting.
[150/1959].
Treatment of
parcel posted in
letter boxes.
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posted in a Trinidad and Tobago Post letter box, or otherwise than
as provided for the posting of parcels, may in the discretion of
Trinidad and Tobago Post, either be detained and returned or given
up to the sender, or if the said postal article is fully pre-paid with
the letter or open postal article rate of postage, and otherwise
conforms to the Regulations as to the letter or open postal article
post, the same may be forwarded as a letter or open postal article
(as the case may be).
52. (1) Parcels or small postal articles which for any reason
are undeliverable shall be dealt with in accordance with
arrangements from time to time made between Trinidad and
Tobago Post and the Postal Administrations concerned.
(2) Where under any such arrangement as above
mentioned an outgoing parcel or small postal article is received
from a place outside of Trinidad and Tobago for return to the sender,
there shall be charged upon such parcel or small postal article and
paid by the sender additional postage according to the rate
chargeable under any such arrangement, and the parcel or small
postal article shall not be given up to the sender except upon
payment of such additional postage and of all charges of any kind
to which the parcel or small postal article may have become liable
under the provisions of this regulation, or otherwise by the law of
Trinidad and Tobago or of any Commonwealth territory or foreign
country and a further charge of five dollars.
(3) Where under any such arrangement as above
mentioned a parcel or small postal article is not returned to the
sender, or the sender or the addressee refuses or fails to pay the
charges to which the parcel or small postal article has become
liable under this regulation or otherwise, the parcel or small postal
article shall be sold, destroyed or otherwise dealt with in the
manner prescribed in relation to undeliverable inland parcels by
regulation 44.
(4) Where an incoming parcel or small postal article
cannot be delivered as originally addressed and under any such
arrangement as above mentioned the name and address of a
Return and
disposal of
undelivered
parcels.
[6 of 1989].
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substituted addressee has been furnished by the sender and the
parcel or small postal article is forwarded to the substituted address,
there shall be charged and paid by the addressee additional postage
at the inland rate chargeable for transmission from the original to
the substituted address.
53. Except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, parcels
which are posted otherwise than in conformity with the provisions
of these Regulations may be either detained and returned or given
up to the senders thereof or dealt with or disposed of in such other
manner as may be authorised by Trinidad and Tobago Post.
54. If a postal article found in an incoming parcel contravenes
regulation 66(n) Trinidad and Tobago Post may, if he thinks fit,
either deliver the parcel to the addressee thereof or withdraw the
postal article so found and deliver it to the addressee thereof but
subject in either case to the payment of a charge not exceeding the
postage which would have been payable in respect of the postal
article had it been transmitted as a separate postal article from the
country or place in which it was posted.
55. (1) Every person who desires to make an application or
enquiry in respect of any Commonwealth or foreign parcel shall
pay a fee of two dollars and fifty cents for each such application
or enquiry.
(2) Notwithstanding subregulation (1), where the
application or enquiry relates to several Commonwealth or foreign
parcels posted at the same time at the same Trinidad and Tobago
Post by the same sender and addressed to the same addressee and
sent by the same route, there shall be payable in respect of the
application or enquiry the fee of two dollars and fifty cents.
(3) Trinidad and Tobago Post or any employee of Trinidad
and Tobago Post duly authorised in writing by him shall, if he finds
that the postal service is responsible for the non-delivery of any
commonwealth or foreign parcel, cause to be refunded to the person
applying or enquiring in respect of any such parcel, as the case may
be, any fee paid in accordance with subregulation (1) or (2).
Treatment of
irregular
parcels.
Postal article
posted contrary
to regulation
66(n).
Fee for enquiry
in respect of
foreign parcels.
[150/1959
160/1975
51/1980
116/1980
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REDIRECTION
56. (1) Any parcel may be redirected from its original address
or any substituted address within Trinidad and Tobago, to the same
addressee at any other address in any country or place with which
a parcel post from Trinidad and Tobago is established, provided
that the parcel conforms with the Regulations applicable to parcels
sent by post to the country or place to which it is redirected.
In every case of the redirection there shall be charged on the parcel
in respect of the redirection additional postage according to the
rates for the time being payable in respect of the transmission of a
like parcel to the country or place to which it may be redirected.
(2) Any parcel may be redirected from its original address
or any substituted address within Trinidad and Tobago to the same
addressee at any other address within Trinidad and Tobago, and
in every case of the redirection there shall be charged on the parcel
in respect of the redirection and (if not previously paid) paid by
the addressee thereof upon the delivery of the parcel such rate of
postage if any, as would in like case be charged upon the parcel
were it an inland parcel.
(3) No parcel redirected from a place out of Trinidad and
Tobago to a place within Trinidad and Tobago shall be delivered
to the addressee except upon payment of all charges of any kind to
which the parcel has become liable by the law of Trinidad and
Tobago or of Great Britain, or of any Commonwealth territory or
foreign country.
(4) Regulation 30 shall apply to insured parcels.
CUSTOMS AND OTHER CHARGES PAYABLE BY SENDER
57. (1) Where the sender of an outgoing parcel desires that
the parcel may be delivered to the addressee free of all Customs
Duties and other charges thereon, the following rules shall apply
to the parcel:
(a) there shall be charged and paid on the parcel, in
addition to all postage thereon, the amount of the
Customs Duties and of all other charges payable
on the delivery of the parcel;
Redirection.
Payment of
Customs and
other charges
by senders.
[116/1980
4/1985
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(b) the sender shall sign an undertaking (in such
form as Trinidad and Tobago Post may from time
to time prescribe) to pay on demand the amount
of such Customs Duties and other charges as
mentioned above;
(c) the sender shall also pay, by way of deposit, at
the time of posting the parcel, a sum equal to one
quarter the value of the parcel or such greater sum
as Trinidad and Tobago Post may either generally
or from time to time direct in respect of such
Customs Duties and other charges;
(d) every such parcel shall be posted at a Trinidad
and Tobago Post approved for the issue of
money orders;
(e) the words “To be delivered free of all charges”
and “Franc de droits” must be written on the cover
of the parcel and also on the despatch note or
declaration required by regulation 50 or
regulation 68, as the case may be;
(f) the sender of the parcel must be a person
permanently resident in Trinidad and Tobago or
a person approved by Trinidad and Tobago Post
and having a duly appointed agent permanently
resident in Trinidad and Tobago.
(2) There shall be collected from the despatching postal
administration on all incoming “Franc de droits” parcels the sum
of one dollar in addition to such Duties of Customs and other
charges to which such parcels may be subject.
(3) For the purposes of subregulation (2) the expression
“ ‘Franc de droits’ parcels” means parcels which are delivered to
the addressees free of Customs Duties and other charges.
(4) This Regulation shall not apply to a parcel addressed
to a country or place with the Postal Administration of which
Trinidad and Tobago Post has not for the time being an arrangement
for the collection from the senders of Customs and other charges.
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SPECIAL CONDITIONS AS TO CASH-ON-DELIVERY PARCELS
58. (1) Cash-on-delivery parcels may be transmitted by post
between Trinidad and Tobago and any country or place outside
of Trinidad and Tobago with reference to which an arrangement
has been made with respect to the transmission of cash-on-
delivery parcels.
(2) All outgoing cash-on-delivery parcels must be
posted at the chief Trinidad and Tobago Post in Port-of-Spain,
San Fernando or Scarborough.
(3) No trade charge exceeding five hundred dollars shall
be collected under these Regulations.
59. (1) There shall be charged and paid on every cash-on-
delivery parcel, in addition to the postage and any other charges
payable on such parcel, the following sums, that is to say:
(a) On every outgoing parcel a cash-on-delivery fee
as follows:
For each $50.00 or part thereof
the trade charge … … … 80 cents
and a despatch fee of … … 40 "
(b) On every incoming parcel a fee of…$2.00
(2) The cash-on-delivery fee and despatch fee payable
on an outgoing cash-on-delivery parcel shall be pre-paid by the
sender in stamps affixed to the parcel.
(3) The trade charge may not be cancelled or altered after
the cash-on-delivery fee has been paid.
(4) The fee payable on an incoming cash-on-delivery
parcel shall be paid by the addressee in addition to the trade charge.
60. The sender of a cash-on-delivery parcel shall in a manner
satisfactory to Trinidad and Tobago Post—
(a) write on the parcel or on a label affixed thereto
his name and address, and the word
Subject to
arrangements
made by
Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
[4/1985
23/1985].
Place of posting.
Limit upon
amount of trade
charge.
Fee for cash-on-
delivery service.
[160/1975
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
Cash-on-
delivery fee to
be prepaid.
Trade charge
may not be
cancelled.
Payments by
addressee.
Duties of sender.
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“Remboursement”, followed by the amount, in
Trinidad and Tobago currency, of the trade charge;
(b) fill up, so far as required, a trade charge money
order form.
61. A cash-on-delivery parcel shall not be given up to the
addressee thereof or opened at his request until the trade charge
and any other charges due thereon have been paid.
62. Trinidad and Tobago Post shall upon receiving from the
addressee the trade charge on an incoming cash-on-delivery parcel
remit the same to the sender of the parcel by means of the trade
charge money order form received with the parcel which will be
issued as a money order free of commission.
63. (1) Every trade charge shall be applied for by the sender
of the parcel to which it relates within one year of the date of
posting of the parcel and, if not so applied for, shall be forfeited.
(2) The sender of every cash-on-delivery parcel must
obtain from Trinidad and Tobago Post a certificate of the posting
thereof, and must, if required, produce the certificate to Trinidad
and Tobago Post as a condition of payment of the trade charge
money order.
64. Subject to these Regulations, cash-on-delivery parcels may
be redirected if the new country of destination maintains with that
of origin an exchange of cash-on-delivery parcels, and in such
case shall be accompanied by the trade charge money order made
out by the service of origin. Where an application is made for
redirection to a country which does not maintain with that of origin
an exchange of cash-on-delivery parcels, the parcel shall be treated
as undeliverable.
MISCELLANEOUS
65. The Regulations for the time being applicable to inland
parcels shall (so far as the same are applicable and subject always
to all other provisions of these Regulations) apply to foreign parcels.
Delivery of
cash-on-delivery
parcels.
Payment to
sender of trade
charge
collected.
Application for
trade charge—
time limit.
Certificate of
posting
required.
Redirection of
cash-on-delivery
parcels.
Application of
inland parcel
Regulations.
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PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
66. There shall not be posted or conveyed or delivered by post,
any postal article—
(a) consisting of or containing any indecent or
obscene print, painting, photograph, lithograph,
engraving, cinematograph film, book, card, or
written communication, or any indecent or
obscene article, whether similar to the above
or not;
(b) having thereon or on the cover thereof any words,
marks or designs which are grossly offensive or
of an indecent or obscene character;
(c) consisting of or containing—
(i) opium, morphine, cocaine and other
narcotics, provided that such narcotics may
be sent for medical or scientific purposes
in insured boxes to countries which admit
them when so sent;
(ii) any explosive substance;
(iii) any dangerous substance;
(iv) any filth;
(v) any noxious or deleterious substance;
(vi) any sharp instrument not properly
protected;
(vii) live animals except:
(a) bees, leaches and silkworms;
(b) parasites and destroyers of noxious
insects intended to be used in the
control of insect pests, weeds or
other harmful matter and exchanged
between organisations or establish-
ments involved in scientific
research and analysis and so
recognised by Government;
List of
prohibitions and
restrictions.
[172/1959
56/1960
34/1979].
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(viii) any article or thing whatsoever which is
likely to injure any other postal article in
course of conveyance or any receptacle in
which the same is conveyed or an employee
of Trinidad and Tobago Post or other person
who may deal with such postal article;
(d) containing or bearing any fictitious postage stamp
or any counterfeit impression of a stamping
machine used under the direction or by the
permission of Trinidad and Tobago Post;
(e) purporting to be prepaid with any stamp or
impression of stamping machine which has been
previously used to prepay any other postal article
or any other revenue duty or tax;
(f) containing or consisting of any of the
following articles:
(i) any article prohibited by the postal,
Customs or other Laws or Regulations of
the country or place in which the postal
article is posted or to which the postal
article is addressed or through which it
must pass;
(ii) articles infringing trade mark or
copyright laws;
(iii) carbon paper, unless certified on the
customs declaration, if one is furnished, in
the following terms:
“carbon paper coated with wax and
containing no oxidisable, oily or fatty
substance”;
(iv) liquid celluloid;
(v) articles composed wholly or partly of raw
celluloid unless completely enclosed in a
strong metal case which should in turn
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be enclosed in a strong wooden box
conforming to the following specifications:
(A) if the lid or bottom or any of the sides
of the box is composed of more than
one piece of wood, the pieces shall be
joined together by means of tongues
and grooves;
(B) a lining of suitable material shall be
placed between the upper edges of
the box and the lid shall be firmly
screwed down;
(C) a white label bearing the word
“Celluloid” in plain black letters shall
be affixed to the parcel and to the
despatch note, when one is used;
(D) in the case of a parcel intended to be
conveyed by French Packet there shall
also be an inner box of cardboard, and
a large red label bearing the word
“Celluloid” in very distinct black
letters shall be affixed to the parcel and
despatch note;
(vi) inflammable films, that is to say, films with
a nitrocellulose base unless the films are
packed in a tin case enclosed in either a
strong wooden box or a vulcanised fibre
container and around the tin suitable soft
packing material is provided so as to
surround it entirely and hold it firmly in
position, and the postal article conforms
with the following specifications:
(A) a white label bearing the words “Films—
Inflammable” in plain black letters
shall be affixed to the postal article;
(B) if a strong wooden box is used as the
outside container, it shall be made from
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boards not less than three-eighths of
an inch in thickness, the sides thereof
shall be dove-tailed, and the bottom
and the lid shall be firmly screwed to
the sides; and if any part of the box is
composed of more than one piece of
wood, the pieces shall be joined
together by means of tongues and
grooves and no gap shall appear at
any join;
(C) if a vulcanised fibre container is used
it shall be manufactured from the
toughest compressed and vulcanised
fireboard, at least one-twentieth of an
inch in thickness and weighing not less
than 31/2 ounces per 100 square inches;
it shall be provided with three flanges
to tuck in after the tin container is
inserted; the rivets used shall be at least
three-sixteenth of an inch long with
five-sixteenth of an inch heads and the
container shall be fastened with a
suitable gummed strip along the edge
of the flap;
(D) the gross weight of the parcel shall
not exceed 6 lbs;
(vii) o i l ed pape r, o i l sk ins and s imi l a r
oiled goods;
(viii) perishable articles or anything liable to
become offensive or injurious through
decay during the time ordinarily occupied
in transmission, unless enclosed in a
hermetically sealed tin;
(ix) soil;
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(x) lottery tickets or advertisements relating
thereto from abroad;
(xi) coin exceeding twenty-five dollars in
value, except coins used or designed for
ornamental purposes and declared as
such; or
(xii) gold bullion exceeding twenty-five dollars
in value;
(g) the cover whereof is entirely transparent or has
thereon an open panel; but there may be a
transparent panel in the cover for the purpose of
showing the address of the addressee, subject to
the conditions that—
(i) the transparent panel must be parallel to the
longest side, so that the address of the
addressee appears in the same direction,
and must be placed so as not to interfere
with the application of the date stamp;
(ii) only the name and address of the addressee
must show through the panel, and the
contents must be secured or folded so that
the address cannot be obscured, wholly or
partly, through slipping; and
(iii) the address must be legibly indicated in ink
or typewriting, the use of copying-ink
pencil or lead pencil being prohibited;
(h) the cover whereof or the part thereof reserved for
the address is divided into separate sections for
the insertion of successive addresses;
(i) having thereon or on the cover thereof any words,
letters, or marks (used without due authority)
which signify or imply, or may reasonably lead
the recipient thereof to believe, that the postal
article is sent On Trinidad and Tobago
Government Service;
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(j) having thereon or on the cover thereof any
words, marks or designs of a character likely in
the opinion of Trinidad and Tobago Post to
embarrass the employees of Trinidad and Tobago
Post in dealing with the postal article;
(k) having anything written, printed, or otherwise
impressed upon or attached to any part of that
side of a postal article which contains the address
at which the postal article is to be delivered which,
either by tending to prevent the easy and quick
reading of the address of the postal article or by
inconvenient proximity to the stamp or stamps
used in the payment of postage, or in any other
way, is in itself, or in the manner in which it is
written, printed, impressed or attached, likely in
the opinion of Trinidad and Tobago Post, to
embarrass the employees of Trinidad and Tobago
Post in dealing with the postal article;
(l) having anything written, printed or otherwise
impressed across the postage stamp thereon;
(m) posted in any place outside Trinidad and Tobago
and addressed to a person resident or carrying on
business in Trinidad and Tobago by or on behalf of
any person also so resident or carrying on business,
if the equivalent amount in sterling of the postage
paid or payable is less than the amount of postage
which would have been payable had the postal
article been sent as an inland postal article and if
in the opinion of Trinidad and Tobago Post the
postal article was so posted with the object of
evading payment of inland postage; or
(n) consisting of or containing two or more postal
articles (of the same or of different descriptions)
addressed to different persons who are at
different addresses.
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PART VII
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH PARCEL POST
67. In this Part—
“letter postal article” means a postal article prepaid at the letter
rate of postage and containing goods or articles or
merchandise whether insured or not, but does not include any
postal article for delivery in a country which has not given
its consent to the admission of the postal articles of goods
or articles liable to Customs Duty;
“small postal article” and “insured box” mean postal articles
posted under the conditions and subject to the regulations
applicable respectively to “small postal articles” and
“insured boxes”.
68. Every parcel and insured box posted in any place outside
Trinidad and Tobago and intended to be delivered at any place
within Trinidad and Tobago and every parcel and insured box
posted in Trinidad and Tobago and intended to be delivered at any
place outside Trinidad and Tobago shall be accompanied by, or
have affixed to it, a declaration of such kind, and stating the
contents of the parcel or box in such manner and form and with
such other particulars as Trinidad and Tobago Post may from time
to time prescribe.
69. Every letter postal article and small postal article posted
in any place outside Trinidad and Tobago and intended to be
delivered at any place within Trinidad and Tobago and every letter
postal article and small postal article posted in Trinidad and Tobago
and intended to be delivered at any place outside Trinidad and
Tobago shall have affixed to it a green Customs label—
(a) of such kind and stating the contents of the postal
article in such manner and form and with such
other particulars as Trinidad and Tobago Post may
from time to time prescribe; or
(b) containing the words Douane (peut etre ouvert
d’office) only in which case the postal article shall
Definitions.
[117/1971
23/1972].
Declaration by
poster.
Green labels to
be placed on
letter postal
articles and
small postal
articles.
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have attached thereto or enclosed therein a
declaration of such kind and stating the contents
of the postal article in such manner and form and
with such other particulars as Trinidad and Tobago
Post may from time to time prescribe.
70. No foreign postal article except a letter postal article, small
postal article, parcel or insured box, having affixed thereto or
accompanied by a label or declaration as aforesaid shall contain
any goods or articles of merchandise; but nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to prohibit or restrict the carrying by post of any
printed paper postal article, or articles for the blind postal article
which conforms with the Regulations made in respect of such
postal articles.
71. Every letter postal article, small postal article, insured box
and parcel shall either at the port of departure from or of arrival in
Trinidad and Tobago, as the case may be, or at such other place as
the Comptroller of Customs and Excise shall direct, be produced
by the proper employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post appointed in
that behalf by Trinidad and Tobago Post, to the proper Officer of
Customs and Excise, and if the Officer of Customs and Excise
requires, it shall thereupon be opened by the employee of Trinidad
and Tobago Post, who is hereby empowered and authorised to open
the same for customs examination; and in any case where the
contents of any such postal article are found not to agree with the
declaration or green Customs label which accompanies or is affixed
to it, or with any declaration, invoice or other document purporting
to relate to the contents of such postal article which may either be
transmitted therewith or produced by the addressee or his agent or
by the person posting it, or if the contents of any of them are found
to consist of goods prohibited to be conveyed by post or to be
imported or exported, as the case may be, such postal article and
all its contents shall be deemed to be goods dealt with contrary to
the Customs laws, and shall be sent to the Comptroller of Customs
and Excise to be dealt with as directed in the said laws.
Restriction on
posting articles
of merchandise.
[117/1971
23/1972].
Certain postal
articles to be
produced to the
proper Officer
of Customs and
Excise.
[117/1971
23/1972].
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72. The employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post aforesaid of
Trinidad and Tobago Post shall deliver to the proper Officer of
Customs and Excise such entries of the contents or such other
documents as the Comptroller of Customs and Excise shall require.
73. (1) If any postal article produced to an Officer of Customs
and Excise as aforesaid contains, or purports to contain any
goods subject to a duty equal to a percentage of the value thereof,
such Officer may in writing require the addressee of the parcel, in
lieu of an employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post, to make such
entry or to sign such other documents as may be required by
regulation 72, and to deliver the same to him.
(2) Any reference in this regulation to a Duty of Custom
includes a reference to purchase tax chargeable on an importation.
74. (1) If within fourteen days of such notice the addressee
shall not deliver such entry or documents as aforesaid and pay to
the Comptroller of Customs and Excise the duties shown by such
entry to be due, the goods in respect of which the addressee has
failed to make entry or to pay the duties due thereon shall, for the
purposes of section 86 of the Customs Act, be deemed to be goods
in respect of which the importer has not made perfect entry within
ten days after the arrival of the ship in which the same were
imported, and the said section shall apply accordingly.
(2) Any reference in this regulation to a Duty of Custom
includes a reference to purchase tax chargeable on an importation.
75. (1) If the addressee of a postal article, not dealt with in
the manner directed in section 33 of the Trinidad and Tobago Post
Act, addressed to Trinidad and Tobago refuses to pay any duty
payable under the Customs laws in respect of the goods contained
in such postal article, Trinidad and Tobago Post may retain the
postal article, and may either pay to the Comptroller of Customs
and Excise the duty payable and recover the same from the
addressee or other person liable to pay the same in the same manner
as if such duty were a rate of postage, or, at the expiration of twenty-
Entry by
employee of
Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
Entry to be
made by
addressee of ad
valorem goods.
[13 of 1963].
Effect of failure
of addressee to
make entry.
[13 of 1963].
Ch. 78:01.
Trinidad and
Tobago Post
obligations
where duty
payment
refused.
[13 of 1963].
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eight days from the date of the notification of the arrival of such
postal article sent to the addressee, shall either send the postal article
to the Comptroller of Customs and Excise, or return it to the country
of origin in accordance with regulation 26 or 52.
(2) Any reference in this regulation to a Duty of Custom
includes a reference to purchase tax chargeable on an importation.
76. Any postal article sent by Trinidad and Tobago Post to the
Comptroller of Customs and Excise under the provisions of
regulation 75 together with all goods contained therein shall be
treated as goods dealt with contrary to the Customs laws.
77. The proper employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post may
receive from the addressee of an incoming postal article to which
these Regulations apply and which is permitted to be delivered the
amount of any duty and purchase tax payable in respect of any
goods contained therein and any money so received shall be paid
over by Trinidad and Tobago Post—
(a) in the case of sums received on account of duty,
to the Comptroller of Customs and Excise; and
(b) in the case of sums received on account of
purchase tax, to the Comptroller of Customs
and Excise.
78. In addition to any sum payable in respect of postage,
customs duty or any other charge, the sum of five dollars shall be
paid on each postal article received in Trinidad and Tobago from
abroad and upon which Customs Duty is levied.
PART VIII
REGISTRATION
79. (1) Subject to these Regulations, and to any requirements
of the Postal Authorities of the country to which the postal article
is addressed or through which it must pass, any outgoing postal
article other than a parcel or insured box may be registered.
Disposal of
postal articles
delivered to the
Comptroller.
Duty and
purchase tax
received payable
to Comproller.
[13 of 1963
1 of 1968].
Additional fee
for postal article
received in
Trinidad and
Tobago.
[192/1957
160/1975
51/1980
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
Certain postal
articles may be
registered.
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(2) This regulation shall not apply to any postal article
addressed to initials or in pencil, but a postal article may be
addressed in copy ink pencil, unless it is sent in an envelope with
a transparent cover.
(3) Every postal article presented for registration must be
enclosed in a strong cover appropriate to its contents, and must be
securely fastened with wax, gum or other adhesive matter in such
a manner as to render impossible the opeining thereof without
damage to the cover. A cover which has a transparent panel to
show the address may be used, but the panel must form an integral
part of the cover.
(4) If in the opinion of any employee of Trinidad and
Tobago Post to whom a postal article is tendered for registration
the packing is inadequate or objectionable, registration of the postal
article shall be refused.
(5) The address must be clearly written in English but
the address may be repeated in another language.
80. The following rules shall apply to the registration of
postal articles:
(a) the postal article must be posted by delivery for
registration at a Trinidad and Tobago Post to an
employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post on duty
at the Trinidad and Tobago Post;
(b) all sums chargeable on the registration of the
postal article, and all postage chargeable thereon,
must be prepaid in the manner prescribed in
regulation 5, at the time of posting;
(c) on delivery of the postal article for registration, a
certificate of posting, bearing thereon an
acknowledgement that the registration fee has
been paid, shall be obtained. This certificate
must be filled up, and signed by the employee
of Trinidad and Tobago Post receiving the
postal article.
Registered
articles to be
securely
fastened.
Address.
Method of
posting, etc.
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81. There shall be charged and paid the sum of three dollars
for the registration of every outgoing postal article.
82. (1) The sender of a registered postal article addressed for
inland delivery or for delivery to any foreign or Commonwealth
country in the Universal Postal Union, may obtain an advice of its
delivery on an application being made and on payment of the fees
specified in subregulation (2).
(2) The fees for advice, which must be paid at the time
the appplication is made and by means of stamps affixed by the
sender to a form provided for the purpose are as follows:
(a) where the application is made at the time of
posting, three dollars for inland postal articles
and three dollars and fifty cents for postal
articles addressed to any foreign or
Commonwealth country in the Universal
Postal Union;
(b) where the application is made after posting, three
dollars and fifty cents for each application made
in respect of any inland postal article and three
dollars and fifty cents for each application made
in respect of postal articles addressed to any
foreign or Commonwealth country in the
Universal Postal Union.
(3) No application shall be entertained in respect of a
registered postal article that was posted at least twelve months
before the date of the application.
83. Subject to these Regulations, every outgoing postal article
marked with the word “registered” or with any other word, phrase
of mark indicating intended registration, posted otherwise than in
Fee for
registration of
outgoing postal
article.
[41/1952
192/1957
209/1968
160/1975
51/1980
116/1980
6 of 1989].
Procedure for
obtaining advice
of delivery of
registered postal
article.
[41/1952
192/1957
160/1975
51/1980
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
Irregular posting
of a registered
article.
[41 /1952
192/1957
209/1968
160/1975].
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accordance with regulation 80(a) shall be treated as follows:
(a) a postal article that is addressed to any place in
Trinidad and Tobago shall be subjected to
compulsory registration and charged upon delivery
with twice the registration fee specified in regulation
81 less any amount prepaid in excess of postage;
(b) if addressed to any place abroad, the postal article
shall be compulsorily registered, and sent forward
but if insufficiently prepaid as regards postage
and registration fee it shall be registered and sent
forward surcharged with double the deficiency.
84. Every uninsured outgoing postal article (other than a parcel
or small postal article) which contains coin, bank-notes, currency
notes, negotiable instruments payable to bearer, platinum, gold or
silver, manufactured or not, precious stones, jewels or other
precious articles, and which is addressed to a country to which
such articles are transmissible by post, shall be registered and, if
posted without registration, shall be returned to the sender.
84A. Postal articles containing living animals as are authorised
by the Act to be sent by post shall be registered and where posted
without registration shall he returned to the sender.
85. Every uninsured incoming postal article (other than a parcel
or small postal article) which contains coin, bank-notes, currency
notes, negotiable instruments payable to bearer, platinum, gold or
silver, manufactured or not, precious stones, jewels or other
precious articles, and which is not registered, shall be treated in
accordance with regulation 83 as if it were an inland postal article
intended for but posted without registration.
PART IX
COMPENSATION AND INSURANCE
86. Subject to these Regulations—
(a) where any article of pecuniary value enclosed in
or forming part of a postal article is lost or
Compulsory
registration.
Postal articles
containing live
animals.
[34/1979].
Incoming postal
articles.
Compensation
for loss.
[41/1952
117/1971
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damaged so as entirely to destroy its value, while
in the custody of Trinidad and Tobago Post,
Trinidad and Tobago Post may pay to any person
who, in his opinion, establishes a reasonable claim
to compensation (having regard to the nature of
the article, the case with which it was packed and
other circumstances) such sum not exceeding the
maximum amount as prescribed by the
Convention of the Universal Postal Union;
(b) where any registered postal article is lost while
in the post, Trinidad and Tobago Post may pay
to the sender of the postal article a sum not
exceeding the maximum amount as prescribed by
the Convention of the Universal Postal Union.
87. (1) No registered postal article will be delivered to the
addressee unless and until he signs a receipt for it in such a form
as Trinidad and Tobago Post shall require, or if this is not
practicable, unless and until the receipt is signed by some
responsible person known to be permanently connected with the
house or place to which the postal article is addressed, or by some
person authorised by the addressee in writing to receive registered
postal articles on his behalf. However, there shall not be any
obligation on Trinidad and Tobago Post or on the employee of
Trinidad and Tobago Post actually making delivery thereof to
deliver a registered postal article to any person whomsoever until
the identity of such person has been satisfactorily established.
(2) In the case of a private box holder, forms of receipt
shall be placed in his private letter-box, unless instructions to the
contrary have been given by him.
88. Where any article of pecuniary value enclosed in or
forming part of an uninsured parcel is lost or damaged while in the
course of conveyance by the post under these Regulations, Trinidad
and Tobago Post may pay to any person or to the postal
administration of any foreign country if, in his opinion, such person
Receipts to be
signed for
registered
articles.
[41/1952].
Compensation
for loss of
uninsured
parcel.
[41/1952
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or administration establishes a reasonable claim to compensation
(having regard to the nature of the article, the care with which it
was packed and other circumstances) such sum, not exceeding the
maximum amount prescribed by Universal Postal Union
Convention Parcel Post Agreement, as he may think just.
89. If any article of pecuniary value, enclosed in or forming
part of an insured letter or parcel, is lost or damaged whilst in the
course of conveyance by the post under these Regulations, Trinidad
and Tobago Post may pay to any person, or to the postal
administration of any Commonwealth territory or foreign country,
if, in the opinion of Trinidad and Tobago Post, such person or
administration establishes a reasonable claim to compensation
(having regard to the nature of the article) and care with which it
was packed, and other circumstances such sum as he may think
just except that—
(a) in the case of an outgoing insured letter or parcel
where in addition to the postage payable in respect
of the letter or parcel a compensation fee of an
amount specified in the first column of the
Second Schedule (and no more) is paid in respect
of the letter or parcel, the sum paid by way of
compensation shall not exceed the sum specified
in the second column of the said Schedule
opposite the said fee;
(b) in the case of an incoming insured letter or
parcel the sum paid by way of compensation
shall not in any case exceed two thousand dollars,
and in no case shall it exceed the amount of the
equivalent thereof for which the letter or parcel
has been insured by the sender, as fixed from time
to time by agreement between Trinidad and
Tobago Post and any Commonwealth country
or the foreign country from which the letter
is transmitted.
Compensation—
insured postal
article.
[150/1959
4/1985
23/1985].
Second
Schedule.
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90. (1) Subject to this regulation, no letter or parcel shall be
insured for more than two thousand dollars.
(2) Where the value of the contents of a letter or parcel is
less than two hundred and fifty dollars, the contents of the letter or
parcel may be insured for the amount set out in the London Post
Office Guide in respect of such value.
(3) Where the value of the contents of a letter or parcel
exceeds two hundred and fifty dollars, the letter or parcel may be
insured for any amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, “the London Post
Office Guide” means the Post Office Guide issued by the British
Post Office under the direction of the Postmaster General of the
United Kingdom.
91. (1) Trinidad and Tobago Post may give effect to the
provisions of these Regulations as to the loss or damage of articles
enclosed in or forming part of letters or parcels whether registered
or insured or not, out of such aids or supplies as may be from time
to time provided and appropriated by Parliament for that purpose,
but nothing contained in, or done under, or in pursuance of these
Regulations renders him liable, either personally or in his official
capacity, to any action or other legal proceeding in respect of, or
in consequence of, any such loss or damage, whether the loss or
damage is occasioned by or arises from any act or neglect of any
employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post or any other person.
(2) The decision of Trinidad and Tobago Post on all
questions arising between him and any person claiming payment
in respect of the loss or damage of any letter or parcel or any
article enclosed in or forming part of a letter or parcel shall be
final and conclusive.
92. (1) Except as otherwise directed by Trinidad and Tobago
Post, a parcel posted in or addressed to a country or place from
or to which insured parcels are transmissible by post, and containing
coin, bullion, or any article of jewellery or any article not for the
Limit of
insurance.
[150/1959
4/1985
23/1985].
General
provisions as
to loss or
damage.
Compulsory
insurance.
[41/1952
192/1957
209/1968
51/1980
116/1980].
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time being transmissible in an uninsured parcel to or from such
country or place, shall not be conveyed by post unless the same
is insured.
(2) The following provisions shall apply to any such
parcel if posted without insurance:
(a) if the parcel is received at a Trinidad and
Tobago Post—
(i) the parcel shall be registered as if it were a
letter, and may be detained for that purpose;
(ii) the parcel shall be charged with a
registration fee of eighty cents, in addition
to all other postage payable thereon;
(iii) no compensation shall be payable in respect
of the loss or damage of the parcel or the
contents thereof;
(b) if the parcel is posted at a Trinidad and Tobago
Post it shall be treated in such manner as Trinidad
and Tobago Post may direct, and no compensation
shall be payable in respect of the loss or damage
of the parcel or the contents thereof.
93. Letters and parcels will be accepted for insurance at and
insured letters and parcels from abroad may be addressed to the
following Trinidad and Tobago Posts only:
Insurance
offices.
[41/1952
23/1985].
Arima
Arouca
Belmont
Blanchisseuse
California
Carapichaima
Carenage
Caroni
Cedros
Central Market
Chaguanas
Charlotteville—
Tobago
Claxton Bay
Couva
Cumuto
Cunupia
Curepe
Diego Martin
El Socorro
Erin
Forest Reserve
Fyzabad
Gasparillo
George Street
Gonzales
Gran Couva
Guaico
Guapo
Guayaguayare
La Brea
Laventille
Manzanilla
Marabella
Maraval
Matelot
Mayaro
Moriah—
Tobago
Moruga
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94. The provisions of regulations 80 and 82 shall apply to
insured letters and parcels in like manner as they apply to registered
postal articles.
95. (1) The restrictions contained in regulation 79(2), (3), (4)
and (5) shall apply to insured letters and parcels in like manner as
they apply to registered postal articles.
(2) Insured articles may not bear erasures or corrections
in the address at the time of posting.
96. All the seals on an insured letter or parcel shall be of the
same kind of wax (or lead in the case of parcels) and bear distinct
impressions of a single private device. Coins shall not be used for
sealing; and the device shall not consist merely of straight, crossed,
or curved lines or other marks which could readily be imitated.
97. The amount for which a letter or parcel is insured shall be
written by the sender both in words and in figures at the top of the
address side of the cover, thus— “Insured for sixty dollars ($60)”,
and shall not exceed the real value of the letter or parcel or its contents.
No alteration or erasure of the inscription is allowed. The amount
shall also, in the case of a parcel, be entered on the despatch note, if
one is used.
98. As few stamps as possible shall be used to prepay the
postage and insurance fee. They shall not be folded over the edge
Application of
regulations 80
and 82.
Application of
regulation 79.
Seals to be
identical and
distinct.
Insured amount
to be written on
postal article.
Stamps.
Morvant
Newtown
Oropouche
Palo Seco
Penal
Point Fortin
Port-of-Spain
Princes Town
Rio Claro
Roxborough—Tobago
San Fernando
San Juan
Sangre Grande
Santa Flora
Scarborough—
Tobago
Siparia
Speyside—
Tobago
St. James
St. Vincent Street
Tabaquite
Tableland
Tacarigua
Toco
Tunapuna
University of the West
Indies
Valsayn
Williamsville
Woodbrook
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of the cover, and when more stamps than one are used, they shall
be affixed with spaces between them.
99. (1) An insured letter received from abroad irregularly
addressed to a Trinidad and Tobago Post other than one of those
mentioned in regulation 93, shall be retained and delivered at the
nearest Trinidad and Tobago Post transacting insurance business,
on being called for by the addressee.
(2) An insured parcel received from abroad addressed to
a Trinidad and Tobago Post other than one of those mentioned in
regulation 93, if endorsed “To be insured as far as the service
permits” may be forwarded as uninsured to Trinidad and Tobago
Post of delivery at the sender’s risk. An insured parcel not bearing
this endorsement shall be retained and delivered at the nearest
Trinidad and Tobago Post transacting insurance business on being
called for by the addressee.
100. Postal articles posted in Trinidad and Tobago which are
found after being insured to be addressed to a country or place to
which the insurance system does not extend, or have otherwise
been irregularly insured, shall be returned to the senders.
INSURED LETTERS
101. In addition to the restrictions contained elsewhere in these
Regulations, the following shall apply to every insured letter and
insured letter postal article. It shall not without the express
permission of Trinidad and Tobago Post, nor unless posted in
accordance with Part VI, contain coin, articles subject to customs
duty (except paper money, securities and similar valuable papers)
platinum, gold or silver, manufactured or not, precious stones,
jewels and other valuables; but an insured postal article posted in
accordance with Part VI may contain articles subject to Customs
Duty where the importation of the articles in insured letter postal
articles is permitted in the country or place to which the letter
postal article is addressed.
Restricted
delivery in
certain cases.
Treatment of
insured letters
irregularly
accepted.
Conditions of
insurance.
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102. Letters bearing on the outside a declaration of the value of
the contents cannot be transmitted by post to places abroad unless
they are insured and comply with the provisions of Part VI relating
to letter postal articles.
103.
to
106.
PART X
“POSTE RESTANTE”
107. Subject to the provisions of regulation 109, postal articles
of any kind to be called for may be posted at or to any Post Office
in any country which has undertaken to provide such facilities
subject to the conditions laid down in each case, the words
“Poste Restante” “To be called for”, To await arrival”, or similar
instructions shall appear in the address.
108. Postal articles which are addressed to places in Trinidad
and Tobago at which there is no delivery by letter carrier will be
regarded as intended for the Poste Restante and dealt with
accordingly.
109. The Poste Restante in Trinidad and Tobago shall be used
solely for the accommodation of strangers and travellers who may
use the same for not more than three months except as provided in
regulation 108.
110. Postal articles addressed to initials or to fictitious names,
or to a given name without a surname shall not be taken at the
Poste Restante, but shall be treated as undeliverable postal articles.
111. Every person applying at a Poste Restante if unknown must
produce such evidence of his identity as the proper employee of
Trinidad and Tobago Post may require.
(Revoked by LN 116/1980).}
Compulsory
insurance.
Poste restante.
Postal articles
addressed to
certain places
to be placed in
Poste restante.
To be used by
starngers and
travellers only.
Certain postal
articles deemed
undeliverable.
Identification
of applicants
for postal
articles.
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112. Subject to these Regulations, postal articles shall be
retained in the Poste Restante as follows:
(a) if originating in Trinidad and Tobago or abroad,
for one calendar month from date of receipt;
(b) exceptionally, postal articles addressed to ships
may be retained for two calendar months;
(c) at the expiry of the above-mentioned periods,
postal articles shall be treated as undeliverable.
113. Within fourteen days after the date of notice of arrival of a
foreign incoming parcel being served on him, any addressee of
the parcel who fails to clear it from Trinidad and Tobago Post is
liable to pay a demurrage fee of one dollar a parcel a day during
the period the parcel remains at Trinidad and Tobago Post in excess
of the fourteen days; but Trinidad and Tobago Post, in its discretion,
may waive collection of this fee.
PART XI
PRIVATE LETTER BOXES AND BAGS
114. Private letter boxes may be rented at Trinidad and Tobago
Posts in Port-of-Spain, San Fernando, Princes Town and
Scarborough, and at such other Trinidad and Tobago Posts as
Trinidad and Tobago Post may consider advisable, on the
following conditions:
(a) the rents of all private boxes shall be paid in
advance and shall become due either on allotment,
or, in the case of existing holders, on the first day
of January of each year;
(b) with effect from January 1985 the annual rent
shall be—
Large boxes … … … $120.00
Medium boxes… … … $100.00
Small boxes … … … $ 70.00
(c) where private letter boxes are rented on or after
1st April in any year, the rent up to 31st December
Time of
retention in
Poste restante.
[41/1952].
Demurrage fee
on incoming
parcels.
[192/1957
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
Private letter
boxes—offices
at which
available.
Fees payable.
[41/1952
192/1957
24/1972
51/1980
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
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shall be calculated at the rate of one-tenth of the
foregoing rates for each month or part of a month,
a broken period of the first month being reckoned
as a full month;
(d) the renter of a private letter box shall in addition
to the rent of the box deposit a sum, determined
by Trinidad and Tobago Post, equal in amount to
the cost of the key as a guarantee for the safe return
of the key upon the discontinuance of the rental;
(e) a private box may not be rented, or, except as
hereinafter provided, may not be used by more
than one person or corporation;
(f) no person may rent a box under an assumed name,
or for an improper purpose.
115. No letters or other mail matter shall be placed in a private
box unless—
(a) addressed to the person or firm renting the box;
(b) addressed to subordinates or employees of the
person or firm renting the box; or
(c) addressed care of the person or firm renting
the box,
and bearing the number of the box.
116. A box holder may not cede or transfer his box to any other
person. In case any box is not used by the renter, Trinidad and
Tobago Post may allot the box to another renter, without refunding
any sum to the original box holder.
117. Any mail matter erroneously delivered, or which through
wrong address is sorted into a private letter box, shall be returned
immediately to Trinidad and Tobago Post with the words “Not for
Box No. ” written thereon.
118. Any injury or damage to a private letter box arising through
the wilful act of the renter or his agent shall be made good by
Method of
address.
Box may not be
transferred.
Mis-sorted or
mis-delivered
correspondence.
Damage to
private box by
renter.
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Trinidad and Tobago Post at the expense of the renter, who shall on
demand repay to Trinidad and Tobago Posts the cost thereof.
119. Trinidad and Tobago Post may in its absolute discretion
refuse to allot a box to an applicant without assigning any reason
for so doing, or may withdraw the privilege of renting a box by
giving to the renter a month’s notice of his intention to do so.
120. On discontinuing the use of a box, the key deposit shall be
refunded to the renter as soon as practicable after the receipt of the
key by an employee of the Trinidad and Tobago Post at the office
from which the box was rented. The key deposit shall be forfeited if the
key is not surrendered within fourteen days after the box is discontinued.
121. Where during the rental period the key of a private letter
box is lost, another shall be issued to the renter on his depositing a
sum, determined by Trinidad and Tobago Post, equal in amount to
the cost or replacement. This sum shall be refunded if, but only if,
within one month of the issue of the duplicate key the original key
is returned to Trinidad and Tobago Post.
122. Where for any reason any mail matter cannot be sorted
into a private box, a notification of arrival shall be placed in
the box.
123. Delivery into a box shall in all respects be deemed
equivalent to personal delivery to the addressee.
PRIVATE LETTER BAGS
124. No person may be allowed the use of a private letter bag
except on the authority of Trinidad and Tobago Post after the
prescribed fees have been paid.
125. The rent payable for a private letter bag shall be one
hundred and twenty dollars for each calendar year or any part
thereof save that where a private letter bag is rented on or after
1st April in any year the rent payable for that year shall be calculated
at the rate of ten dollars for each month or any part thereof.
Power to refuse
or withdraw
box.
Discontinuance
of private box
and return of
key.
Issue of
duplicate key.
[24/1972].
Bulky
correspondence.
Delivery into
box equivalent
to personal
delivery.
Private letter
bags.
Rent payable
for private
letter bag.
[192/1957
160/1975
51/1980
116/1980
4/1985
23/1985
6 of 1989].
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PART XII
REPLY COUPONS
126. Coupons issued by the International Postal Union for the
purpose of prepaying replies, and exchangeable in any country of
the Postal Union for a stamp or stamps representing the postage
on a single rate letter from that country, shall be sold at Trinidad
and Tobago Post, Port-of-Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago Posts at
San Fernando and Scarborough at the price as prescribed by the
Convention of the Universal Postal Union.
127. International Reply Coupons issued in other countries
may be exchanged at any Money Order Office in Trinidad and
Tobago for a stamp or stamps representing the surface postage
payable on a single rate unregistered letter to a foreign country.
128. Not more than ten International Reply Coupons will be
sold to, or exchanged for, the same person on any one day.
PART XIII
MONEY ORDER REGULATIONS
129. Inland and foreign money orders shall be issued and paid
at Trinidad and Tobago Posts specified in the Third Schedule.
130. The rates of commission to be charged for the issue of
inland and foreign money orders and the other charges leviable
under these Regulations, shall be in accordance with the rates set
forth in the Fourth Schedule.
131. Every money order and advice issued must be drawn on
authorised forms only.
132. No single inland money order shall be issued for a sum
exceeding two hundred dollars.
133. When applying for money orders the remitter shall fill
in, in ink, the printed requisition form, which will be supplied
International
reply coupons.
[92/1957].
Exchange for
stamps.
[41/1952
192/1957].
Maximum
number of
coupons sold or
exchanged in
one day.
[24/1972].
Money order
offices.
Third Schedule.
Commission on
money orders.
Fourth
Schedule.
Form.
Limit for inland
money orders.
[51/1956].
Requisition for
inland money
orders.
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gratuitiously at all money order offices, showing, as fully as
possible, the name, title or designation, as the case may be, of the
payee together with the amount of the money order required, the
office at which payable, and the full name and address of the
remitter. A money order cannot be made payable to two or
more persons, nor to a person indicated only by initials or by a
fictitious name.
134. When issued, every money order shall be handed by the
employee of the Trinidad and Tobago Post to the remitter to be
transmitted by him to the payee, and an advice sent from the issuing
office to the paying office, containing information as to the amount
and the name of the payee and of the remitter.
135. The person presenting a money order for payment must,
unless it is presented through a Bank, furnish the remitter’s name
for comparison with the advice.
ISSUE OF FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS
136. (1) The maximum amount for which a single money order
may be drawn on Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Eire, India,
Barbados, Guyana, Belize, Grenada, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua,
Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, or Tortola shall be forty
pounds; but for a single order drawn on Canada or the United States
of America the maximum shall be one hundred dollars.
(2) The maximum amount in other cases shall be as shown
in the London Post Office Guide.
137. (1) All money orders shall be expressed in sterling except
those drawn upon Canada and the United States of America, which
shall be expressed in dollars and cents.
(2) No money order may be cashed for an amount
including a fractional part of a cent.
138. A person applying for a money order payable abroad shall
fill in the special requisition form supplied for the purpose. Latin
Issue and
advice.
Presenter to
state remitter’s
name.
Limit for
foreign money
orders.
How amounts
to be expressed.
Requisition for
foreign money
orders.
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characters only may be used when completing this form, which
may be filled in by the remitter himself or by any one on his behalf.
The amount of the money order, the office of payment, the name
and full address of the payee and the name and full address of the
remitter shall be stated clearly.
139. Trinidad and Tobago Post shall not be responsible for any
wrong delivery or payment resulting from, or facilitated by,
indistinctness, inaccuracy or incompleteness of name or any of
other defect in any application for a money order.
140. The issuing employee of the Trinidad and Tobago Post
shall hand to the remitter either—
(a) a money order to be forwarded by post to the
payee for presentation at the office of
payment; or
(b) a certificate of issue (in cases where arrangements
have been made for the payee to receive a
money order through the chief office of the
country of payment).
141. Where a money order is sent from Trinidad and Tobago to
any other country through the intermediary of the United Kingdom,
an additional amount equal to the commission due to the British
Post Office for such an order shall be deducted from the amount
of the order before it is readvised from London.
142. The payment of a money order drawn on an office
abroad shall be subject to the Regulations of the country of payment.
The payee may be required to produce documentary evidence of
his identity before payment.
143. Should it appear at any time that money orders are being
used by persons for the transmission of large sums of money, or to
profit by an advance in the rate of exchange, or in other
circumstances causing abuses or acting injuriously to the postal
revenue, Trinidad and Tobago Post on the direction of the President
shall be empowered to increase the prescribed rates of commission,
or to suspend the issue of such money orders.
Trinidad and
Tobago Post not
responsible for
consequences of
defects.
Issue of
money order.
Additional
amount to be
paid on money
orders sent
through the
United
Kingdom.
[160/1975].
Regulations of
country of
payment to
apply.
Irregular use
of money order
service.
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Validity of
money order
payable abroad.
Payment at
Trinidad and
Tobago Posts.
Method of
payment.
Payment
through bank.
Delay in
payment in
certain cases.
144. Orders issued in Trinidad and Tobago for payment abroad
shall be valid for twelve months after the month of issue, except
orders payable in Zaire, which are valid for eight months only, and
in Poland, Brazil, India and Pakistan, the Dutch West Indies, and
Uruguay, which are valid for six months only after the month
of issue.
PAYMENT OF MONEY ORDERS (INLAND OR FOREIGN)
145. No money order shall be paid unless the corresponding
advice has been previously received nor unless the advice bears
the date stamp of the office at which the order purports to have
been issued, nor unless the identity of the person presenting the
money order is established to the satisfaction of the paying
employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post.
146. (1) Subject to these Regulations, the paying employee of
Trinidad and Tobago Post shall make payment of every order presented
(otherwise than through a Bank) when it is properly receipted, provided
the name of the remitter, as furnished by the applicant, is in agreement
with the advice or appears on the order, unless the paying employee
of Trinidad and Tobago Post has good reason for believing that the
applicant is neither the payee nor his agent.
(2) A money order payable to a limited liability company,
corporation or society shall be completed by the insertion of the
name of the company, corporation or society in the receipt space,
together with the signature of a responsible officer such as the
secretary, manager, director, treasurer or accountant, and the
description of his official position.
147. When an order is crossed for payment through a bank,
payment shall be made to a duly accredited representative of the
bank, provided that the order bears a legible imprint of the
bank’s stamp.
148. Money orders shall be paid subject to the possession by
the employee of the Trinidad and Tobago Post of the paying office
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of sufficient funds, and Trinidad and Tobago Post shall not be
responsible for any delay in payment owing to insufficient funds
being available.
149. If a payee is unable to write, he must sign the receipt by
making his mark, which shall be witnessed in writing. The witness
should sign his name and write his address in the presence of the
paying employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post. The paying
employee of Trinidad and Tobago Post shall not himself act as
witness. It shall not be necessary that the witness is personally
acquainted with the payee provided there is no reason to doubt the
ownership of the money order.
150. (Revoked by LN 116/1980).
151. The rates of conversion for money orders issued in the
United States of America and payable in Trinidad and Tobago
shall be as follows:
When the local rate of exchange is at a discount, the deduction
from each complete dollar shall be 2 cents for each two per cent
of discount or part thereof.
When the local rate of exchange is at a premium the addition
to each complete dollar shall be—
(a) in respect of the first 5 per cent of the premium, Nil;
(b) in respect of each additional 2 per cent of the
premium or part thereof, 2 cents.
152. After once paying a money order by whomsoever
presented, the Trinidad and Tobago Post shall not be liable to any
further claim, nor to pay compensation for the loss or injury arising
out of delay in payment of a money order or out of any other
irregularity in connection with a money order.
153. Where the remitter of a money order desires to be advised
of the date of payment of the order, he shall apply to the office of
issue either at the time of issue of the money order or subsequently,
Illiterate payee.
Conversion rates
for money
orders issued in
the United
States of
America.
Non-liability of
Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
Advice of
payment of
money order.
[160/1975
51/1980
4/1985
23/1985].
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and pay a fee of fifty cents. The issuing employee of the Trinidad
and Tobago Post shall then arrange for an advice of payment to
be sent to the remitter.
154. If the payee of a money order desires to receive
payment in Trinidad and Tobago at some other office than that
upon which the order has been drawn, the transfer may be granted
free of charge.
155. In case of the miscarriage or loss of an inland or foreign
money order in transmission through the post (except those issued
in the United States of America or Canada) a duplicate order
shall be issued free of charge upon written application containing
the necessary particulars being made to Trinidad and Tobago Post,
Port-of-Spain. Should an order be lost by the remitter or payee, a
fee equal to the commission of the amount of an inland money
order of the same value (which should be forwarded with the
application for a duplicate order) shall be paid by him to Trinidad
and Tobago Post.
156. Where a duplicate money order is required to replace a
missing order issued in the United States of America or Canada,
application shall be made by the payee or remitter to the Assistant
Postmaster General, Washington, D.C., or Postmaster General,
Ottawa, respectively, in conformity with the Regulations
established in those countries.
157. Before a duplicate money order issued in the United States
of America is paid in Trinidad and Tobago, the payee shall sign an
indemnity in the following form:
“I hereby acknowledge the receipt of the sum of ..............
and I agree to refund to Trinidad and Tobago Post, the amount
of the original order of which the particulars are shown in the
Coupon of Duplicate Money Order attached hereto, should it
have been already, or be at any time hereafter, presented and
Payment
transferred to
another office.
Loss of a
money order.
Duplicate
money orders.
Indemnity to
be given.
[51/1980
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paid, of which presentation and payment the production of the
said order purporting to be stamped with the date stamp of a
paying office shall be sufficient evidence.”
25 cents Stamp
to be affixed
here if Duplicate
Money Order exceeds $25
If the sum to be paid exceeds twenty-five dollars he shall also
affix a stamp to the value of twenty-five cents to the form of
indemnity and cancel the stamp by writing thereon his initials and
the date.
158. Any remitter who desires to stop payment of an order
shall make written application to Trinidad and Tobago Post, giving
full particulars of the order, and shall pay to him a fee of twenty
cents. Trinidad and Tobago Post may refund to the remitter the
amount of a money order so applied for, provided such has not
already been paid, and in any such case Trinidad and Tobago Post
is free from all liability to the payee.
159. Every inland or foreign money order issued by the
Trinidad and Tobago Post shall become void at the expiration of
twelve months from the last day of the month of issue.
160. Repayment of the amount of an original, a void or a
duplicate money order shall not be made to the remitter until an
authorisation for the repayment shall first have been obtained
from the country where the orders are payable. A fee equal to the
amount of the commission chargeable on an inland money order
of similar value shall be paid by the remitter in addition to any
fee paid under regulation 158 for stopping payment.
..........................................
Signature
Procedure for
stopping
payment of a
money order.
[51/1980
116/1980].
Void orders.
Repayment of
money order
not to be
effected until
authorised.
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161. Every money order issued in another country and payable
in Trinidad and Tobago which has not been presented for
payment within twelve months of the last day of the month of
issue shall be void.
PART XIV
TELEGRAPH MONEY ORDERS
162. Trinidad and Tobago Post may issue and pay Trinidad and
Tobago Post telegraph money orders for sums not exceeding forty
pounds to and from the United Kingdom respectively.
163. The charges for telegraph money orders issued in Trinidad
and Tobago shall be as follows:
(a) commission at the ordinary rate for money orders
issued for payment in the United Kingdom;
(b) a charge for the telegram of advice at the
ordinary rate for telegrams addressed to the
United Kingdom; and
(c) a supplementary fee of twelve cents for
each order.
164. On paying for the additional words required the remitter
of a telegraph money order may add to the telegram of advice any
short communication, in English, which he may wish to send to
the payee, and may also if he so desires prepay the cost of a
telegraphic reply to the communication.
165. The remitter of a telegraph money order shall defray all
expenses and bear all losses resulting from the address of the
telegram of advice or that of the payee being incorrect or insufficient
to ensure due payment to the proper person.
166. If the remitter intends that a money order shall be called
for at a Trinidad and Tobago Post, the words Poste Restante must
be written instead of an address after the payee’s name. In the
absence of these words, it shall be assumed that the order is to be
sent out for delivery.
Expiration of
money orders
issued abroad.
Maximum
amount of
telegraph
money orders.
Fee payable.
Remitter may
send private
communication
in advice
telegram.
Full address to
be furnished.
Poste restante.
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167. Trinidad and Tobago Post shall supply the remitter with
an advice of payment on payment of a fee of ten cents. If the remitter
desires that a request for an advice of payment be communicated
to the office of payment in the telegram of advice, he shall also
pay the cost of including the words “advise payment”.
168. Telegraph money orders may be sent from Trinidad and
Tobago Post, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Posts at San
Fernando and Scarborough, or from any other Trinidad and
Tobago Post through the medium of the Trinidad and Tobago Post
at Port-of-Spain.
169. Telegraph money orders shall be paid at any money order
office in Trinidad and Tobago.
170. The general Regulations relating to foreign money orders
shall apply (so far as they are applicable) to telegraph money orders
exchanged with the United Kingdom.
171. Trinidad and Tobago Post shall not be liable for any loss
or damage which may be incurred or sustained by reason or on
account of any mistake or default in the transmission or delivery
of a telegraph money order.
PART XV
POSTAL ORDERS
172. Inland postal orders and Britsh postal orders shall be issued
and paid at Trinidad and Tobago Posts specified in the Fifth
Schedule, and shall be in such form as Trinidad and Tobago Post
shall direct.
173. Inland postal orders shall be issued for amounts of fifty
cents, one dollar, two dollars, three dollars, four dollars, five dollars
and ten dollars.
174. The sum of twenty cents shall be paid as a commission for
each inland postal order issued up to and including the value of
Advice of
payment.
Issuing Trinidad
and Tobago
Posts
for telegraph
money orders.
Where payable.
General
Regulations to
apply to United
Kingdom
telegraph orders.
Non-liability of
Trinidad and
Tobago Post.
Trinidad and
Tobago Posts
transacting
postal order
business.
Fifth Schedule.
Denominations
of inland postal
orders.
Commission
payable.
[160/1975
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four dollars; where the value of the order exceeds four dollars, the
sum of fifty cents shall be paid as commission.
175. The sender of an inland postal order may increase its value
by an amount not exceeding twenty-five cents by affixing postage
stamps of Trinidad and Tobago to the face of the order. Stamps
perforated with initials or marks, or embossed or cut-out impressed
stamps shall not be valid for this purpose.
176. The sender of a British postal order may increase its
value by an even number of cents not exceeding twenty-five by
affixing Trinidad postage stamps not exceeding two in number to
the face of the order in the spaces provided. Stamps perforated
with initials or marks or embossed or cut-out impressed stamps
shall not be valid.
177. Inland postal orders are valid for a period of three months
from the last day of the month of issue. If after the expiration of
that period the order is sent to Trinidad and Tobago Post, Port-of-
Spain, and if after enquiry Trinidad and Tobago Post shall in its
discretion authorise payment, a commission equal to the original
poundage shall be charged. The poundage thus paid shall be affixed
in postage stamps to the back of the order.
178. British postal orders are valid for a period of six months
from the last day of the month of issue. If after the expiration of
that period the order is sent to Trinidad and Tobago Post, Port-of-
Spain, and if after enquiry the proper authority shall authorise
payment, a commission equal to the original poundage shall be
charged. The poundage thus paid shall be affixed in postage stamps
to the back of the order.
179. Trinidad and Tobago Post shall not be liable to any further
claim in regard to any postal order which has once been paid, to
whomsoever it may have been paid.
180. The name of the payee and the name of the Office of
payment must be inserted in the appropriate place, and the order
Extension of
value by postage
stamps.
Extension of
value by postage
stamps.
[51/1980].
Period of
validity (inland).
(British).
Trinidad and
Tobago Post not
liable after
postal order
once paid.
Payment to
the public.
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must be properly receipted before any postal order is paid. In the
case of a postal order payable to a limited liability company,
corporation or society, the name of the company, corporation or
society must be stamped or written in the receipt space and below
it must appear the signature of some responsible officer such as
secretary, manager, director, treasurer or accountant, with a
description of his official position.
181. Any person presenting an inland or British postal order
may be required to sign his own name thereto, notwithstanding
that the receipt may have been already signed.
182. Trinidad and Tobago Post may refuse payment of a postal
order on which any erasure or alteration appears, or which has not
been stamped and signed by the issuing employee of the Trinidad
and Tobago Post, or which has been cut, defaced or mutilated, and
may in his discretion delay payment of an order.
183. The sender of a postal order may obtain repayment of the
amount (but not the poundage) on presenting the order and the
counterfoil at the issuing office. If the order has been crossed for
payment through a bank, the sender must first cancel the crossing
by writing across the face of the order the words “Please pay cash”
and adding his initials.
184. No person is entitled to receive the amount of any postal
order other than the rightful owner thereof, whose identification
must be established to the satisfaction of the Paying employee of
Trinidad and Tobago Post.
PART XVI
GENERAL
185. Where Trinidad and Tobago Post is satisfied that the
addressee of postal articles is dead he may in his discretion—
(a) deliver or re-direct such postal articles on the
written application of any one or more of the
Presenter to
sign personally.
Erasure or
alteration
on postal order
a bar to
payment.
Repayment
to sender.
Postal orders
not negotiable.
[41/1952].
Special
provisions in
case of death
of addressee
of postal
articles.
[6 of 1989].
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Executors named in the Will of the addressee or
of a person appearing to Trinidad and Tobago
Post to be entitled to take out Letters of
Administration to the Estate of the addressee;
(b) deliver or re-direct such postal articles on the
written application of any person appearing to
Trinidad and Tobago Post to be conducting the
affairs of the deceased addressee of the postal
articles; or
(c) retain such postal articles for such period as he
may think fit and on production of Probate of the
Will or Letters of Administration to the Estate of
the addressee together with the written application
of one or more of the executors or administrators,
deliver or re-direct the postal articles in
accordance with such request;
(d) notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, no
postal article shall be delivered or re-directed
unless the Administrator, Executor or person
appearing to Trinidad and Tobago Post to be
conducting the affairs of the deceased addressee
of the postal article pays a charge of five dollars.
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FIRST SCHEDULE
LIST OF RATES RELATING TO OUTGOING
SURFACE PARCELS
1. Where outgoing parcels are sent to a destination by direct route, the
following rates are applicable:
(a) the outward land rate as fixed from time to time by the U.P.U.
Postal Parcels Agreement;
(b) the sea rate as fixed from time to time by the U.P.U. Postal
Parcels Agreement; and
(c) the inward land rate as required by the country of destination.
2. Where outgoing parcels are sent to a destination, through another
country the rates referred to in paragraph 1 are applicable together with the
C.P.I. credit required by the intermediate country.
SECOND SCHEDULE
INSURANCE FEES PAYABLE IN ADDITION TO
NORMAL POSTAGE AND REGISTRATION
Fee Limit of Compensation
$ 1.00 … … … … Up to $100.00
$ 2.00 … … … … Over $100.00 up to $200.00
$ 4.00 … … … … Over $200.00 up to $400.00
$ 6.00 … … … … Over $400.00 up to $600.00
$ 8.00 … … … … Over $600.00 up to $800.00
$ 10.00 … … … … Over $800.00 up to $1,000.00
$ 15.00 … … … … Over $1,000.00 up to $1,500.00
$ 20.00 … … … … Over $1,500.00 up to $2,000.00
Regulation 46.
[41/1952
192/1957
20/1962
130/1963
22/1967
209/1968
117/1971
23/1972
4/1985
23/1985].
Regulation 89.
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Regulation 129.
[4/1985
23/1985].
THIRD SCHEDULE
LIST OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POSTS AT WHICH
INLAND AND FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS ARE
ISSUED AND PAID
Arima
Arouca
Belmont
Blanchisseuse
California
Carapichaima
Carenage
Caroni
Cedros
Central Market
Chaguanas
Claxton Bay
Couva
Cumuto
Cunupia
Curepe
Diego Martin
El Socorro
Erin
Forest Reserve
Fyzabad
Gasparillo
George Street
Gonzales Place
Gran Couva
Guaico
Guapo
Guayaguayare
La Brea
Laventille
Manzanilla
Marabella
Maraval
Matelot
Mayaro
Moruga
Morvant
Newtown
Oropouche
Palo Seco
Penal
Point Fortin
Princes Town
Rio Claro
San Fernando
San Juan
Sangre Grande
Santa Flora
Siparia
St. James
St. Vincent Street
Tabaquite
Tableland
Tacarigua
Toco
Trinidad and Tobago Post—
Port-of-Spain
Tunapuna
University of the West Indies
Valsayn
Williamsville
Woodbrook
Tobago
Charlotteville
Moriah
Roxborough
Scarborough
Speyside
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FOURTH SCHEDULE
RATES OF COMMISSION PAYABLE ON
INLAND MONEY ORDERS
$ ¢.
For any sum not exceeding $ 50.00 … … … … 2.00
For each additional $ 50.00 or part thereof not exceeding $ 200.00 … 1.00
For each additional $ 100.00 or part thereof not exceeding $ 500.00 … 1.00
For stop payment of Money Order … … … … 2.00
For advice of payment of Money Order … … … … 2.00
A single Money Order shall not be issued for any sum in excess of five hundred dollars.
RATES OF COMMISSION PAYABLE ON
FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS
$ ¢.
For any sum not exceeding $ 20.00 … … … … 1.00
For each additional $ 10.00 or part thereof … … … .20
A single Money Order shall not be issued for any sum in excess of two hundred and
forty dollars.
FIFTH SCHEDULE
LIST OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POSTS IN TRINIDAD
AND TOBAGO AT WHICH INLAND AND BRITISH
POSTAL ORDERS ARE ISSUED AND PAID
Regulation 130.
[6 of 1989].
Regulation 172.
[4/1985
23/1985].
Arima
Arouca
Belmont
Blanchisseuse
California
Carapichaima
Carenage
Caroni
Cedros
Central Market
Chaguanas
Claxton Bay
Couva
Cumuto
Cunupia
Curepe
Diego Martin
El Socorro
Erin
Forest Reserve
Fyzabad
Gasparillo
George Street
Gonzales Place
Gran Couva
Guaico
Guapo
Guayaguayare
La Brea
Laventille
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LIST OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POSTS IN TRINIDAD
AND TOBAGO AT WHICH INLAND AND BRITISH
POSTAL ORDERS ARE ISSUED AND PAID—Continued
Manzanilla
Marabella
Maraval
Matelot
Mayaro
Moruga
Morvant
Newtown
Oropouche
Palo Seco
Penal
Point Fortin
Princes Town
Rio Claro
San Fernando
San Juan
Sangre Grande
Santa Flora
Siparia
St. James
St. Vincent Street
Tabaquite
Tableland
Tacarigua
Toco
Trinidad and Tobago Post—
Port-of-Spain
Tunapuna
University of the West Indies
Valsayn
Williamsville
Tobago
Charlotteville
Moriah
Roxborough
Scarborough
Speyside
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SEVENTH SCHEDULE
LIST OF RATES RELATING TO OUTGOING
AIRMAIL PARCELS
1. Where outgoing airmail parcels are sent to a destination by direct route
the following rates are applicable:
(a) the outward land rate fixed from time to time by the U.P.U.
Postal Parcels Agreement;
(b) the air conveyance charges to the country of destination or the
intermediate country; and
(c) the inward land rate as required by the country of destination.
2. Where outgoing airmail parcels are sent to a destination through another
country, the rates referred to in paragraph 1 are applicable together with the
C.P.I. credit required by the intermediate country.
EIGHTH SCHEDULE
POSTAGE RATES PAYABLE ON INLAND MAIL ITEMS
(OTHER THAN PARCELS)
Letters, Postcards, Printed Papers and Small Postal Articles
$ c.
For the first 20 grammes or part thereof … … … … .50
Over 20 grammes up to 50 grammes … … … … .85
Over 50 grammes up to 100 grammes … … … … 1.10
Over 100 grammes up to 250 grammes … … … … 1.75
Over 250 grammes up to 500 grammes … … … … 2.75
Over 500 grammes up to 1 kilogramme … … … … 4.50
Over 1 kilogramme up to 2 kilogrammes … … … … 5.50
For each additional 1 kilogramme or part thereof … … … 1.00
ARTICLES FOR THE BLIND … … … … … No Charge
Regulation 47.
[4/1985
23/1985].
Regulation 11.
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NINTH SCHEDULE
POSTAGE RATES PAYABLE ON POSTAL ARTICLES
(OTHER THAN AIRMAIL POSTAL ARTICLES) FOR
OVERSEAS DELIVERY
Letters $ ¢.
For the first 20 grammes or part thereof … … … 1.00
Over 20 grammes up to 50 grammes … … … 1.70
Over 50 grammes up to 100 grammes … … … 2.50
Over 100 grammes up to 250 grammes … … … 4.00
Over 250 grammes up to 500 grammes … … … 7.00
Over 500 grammes up to 1 kilogramme … … … 14.00
Over 1 kilogramme up to 2 kilogrammes … … … 20.00
Postcards
Each … … … .60
Printed Matter
For the first 20 grammes or part thereof … … … .60
Over 20 grammes up to 50 grammes … … … 1.00
Over 50 grammes up to 100 grammes … … … 1.50
Over 100 grammes up to 250 grammes … … … 2.40
Over 250 grammes up to 500 grammes … … … 3.50
Over 500 grammes up to 1 kilogramme … … … 5.00
Over 1 kilogramme up to 2 kilogrammes … … … 7.00
Each additional 2 kilogrammes or part thereof … … 3.50
Small Postal Articles
For the first 100 grammes or part thereof … … … 1.20
Over 100 grammes up to 250 grammes … … … 2.00
Over 250 grammes up to 500 grammes … … … 3.00
Over 500 grammes up to 1 kilogramme … … … 5.00
Over 1 kilogramme up to 2 kilogrammes … … … 7.00
Regulation
13(1).
[6 of 1989].
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[3 of 1994].TENTH SCHEDULE
AIRMAIL ZONES
Country Zone
Abu Dhabi (see United Arab
Emirates)
Afghanistan … … … C
Ajman (see United Arab Emirates)
Algeria … … … C
Angola (Peoples’ Rep. of) … C
Anguilla … … … A
Antigua … … … A
Argentina … … … B
Aruba (see Netherlands Antilles)
Ascension … … … C
Australia … … … C
Azores … … … C
Bahamas … … … A
Bahrain (State of) … … C
Bangladesh … … … C
Barbados … … … A
Belize … … … B
Benin (Peoples’ Rep. of) … C
Bermuda … … … B
Bhutan … … … C
Bolivia … … … B
Bonaire (see Netherlands Antilles)
Botswana … … … C
Brazil … … … B
British Indian Ocean Territories … C
British Virgin Islands (Tortola) … A
Brunei … … … C
Burma … … … C
Burundi … … … C
Cambodia (see Kampuchea)
Cameroon … … … C
Canada … … … B
Canary Islands… … … C
Cape Verde … … … C
Cayman Islands … … A
Caroline Islands … … C
Central African Republic … C
Chad (Rep. of)… … … C
Chile … … … B
China (Peoples’ Rep. of) … C
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)… C
Cocos (Kneeling) Islands… … C
Colombia … … … B
Comoros (Rep. of) … … C
Congo (Peoples’ Rep. of) … C
Cook (or Hervey) Islands … C
Costa Rica … … … B
Cuba … … … B
Curacao (see Netherlands Antilles)
Cyprus … … … C
Dahomey (see Benin)
Doha (see Qatar)
Djibouti … … … C
Dominica … … … A
Dominican Republic … … B
Dubai (see United Arab Emirates)
East Timor … … … C
Ecuador … … … C
Egypt (Arab Rep. of) … … C
El Salvador … … … B
Equatorial Guinea (Rep. of) … C
Eritrea (see Ethiopia)
Ethiopia … … … C
European Countries … … C
Falkland Islands and Dependencies B
Faroe Islands … … … C
Fiji … … … C
Formosa (see Taiwan) … … C
French Guiana… … … A
French Polynesia … … C
French West Indies … … A
Friendly Islands (see Tonga)
Fumairah (see United Arab
Emirates)
Gabon (Rep. of) … … C
Galapagos Islands (see Ecuador)
Gambia (Rep. of) … … C
Gaza and Khan Yunis … … C
Ghana … … … C
Gibraltar … … … C
Gilbert Islands… … … C
Country Zone
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Country ZoneCountry Zone
Great Britain and Northern
Ireland … … … C
Grenada … … … A
Guadeloupe (see Fr. West Indies)
Guam … … … C
Guatemala … … … B
Guinea Bissau (Rep. of) … C
Guyana … … … A
Guinea (Rep. of) … … C
Haiti … … … B
Honduras Republic … … B
Hong Kong … … … B
India … … … C
Indonesia … … … C
Iran … … … C
Iraq … … … C
Irish Republic … … … C
Israel … … … C
Ivory Coast (Rep. of) … … C
Jamaica … … … A
Japan … … … C
Jordan … … … C
Kampuchea … … … C
Kenya … … … C
Korea (Peoples’ Republic of) … C
Kuwait … … … C
Lao (Peoples’ Democratic Rep.)… C
Lebanon … … … C
Lesotho … … … C
Liberia (Rep. of) … … C
Libyan Jamahiriya … … C
Macao … … … C
Madeira … … … C
Madagascar … … … C
Malawi … … … C
Malaysia … … … C
Maldives (Rep. of) … … C
Mali … … … C
Malta … … … C
Mariana Islands … … C
Marquesa Islands (see
French Polynesia)
AIRMAIL ZONES—Continued
Marshall Islands … … C
Martinique (See Fr. West Indies)
Mauritania … … … C
Mexico … … … B
Mongolia (Peoples’ Rep. of) … C
Montserrat … … … A
Morocco … … … C
Mozambique … … … C
Muscat (see Oman) … … C
Nanibia Island … … … C
Nauru … … … C
Nepal … … … C
Netherlands Antilles … … A
Nevis (see St. Kitts)
New Caledonia … … C
New Guinea (see Papua)
New Hebrides … … … C
New Zealand … … … C
New Zealand Island Territories …
Nicaragua … … … B
Nigeria (Fed. Rep. of) … … C
Niger Republic… … … C
Norfolk Island … … … C
Oman (Sultanate of) … … C
Pakistan … … … C
Panama (Rep. of) … … B
Papua New Guinea … … C
Paraguay … … … B
Peru … … … B
Philippines … … … C
Pitcairn Island … … … C
Puerto Rico … … … A
Qatar (State of) … … C
Ras Al Kaiman (see United Arab
Emirates)
Reunion … … … C
Rio Muni (see Equatorial Guinea)
Rwanda … … … C
Sabah … … … C
St. Eustatius (see Netherlands
Antilles)
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AIRMAIL ZONES—Continued
Country ZoneCountry Zone
St. Helena … … … C
St. Kitts-Nevis… … … A
St. Lucia … … … A
St. Maarten (or Martin) (see
Netherlands Antilles)
St. Pierre and Miquelon … B
St. Vincent and the Grenadines … A
Samoa (U.S. Territory) … … C
Sao Tome and Principe… … C
Sarawaka … … … C
Saudi Arabia … … … C
Senegal (Rep. of) … … C
Seychelles … … … C
Sharjah (see United Arab Emirates)
Sierra Leone … … … C
Singapore (Rep. of) … … C
Solomon Islands … … C
Somali Dem. Rep. … … C
South Africa … … … C
Spanish Territories of North Africa C
Sri Lanka … … … C
Sudan Dem. Rep. … … C
Suriname … … … A
Swaziland … … … C
Syrian Arab Republic … … C
Taiwan (Formosa) … … C
Tanzania … … … C
Thailand … … … C
Tongo (Rep. of) … … C
Tonga … … … C
Tortola (see British Virgin Islands)
Tristan da Cunha … … C
Tunisia … … … C
Turks and Caicos … … B
Tuvalu … … … C
Uganda … … … C
Umm Said (see Qatar)
U.S.S.R. … … … C
United Arab Emirates … … C
United States of America … B
Upper Volta … … … C
Uruguay … … … C
Umm al Qaiwan (see United Arab
Emirates)
Vatican … … … C
Venezuela … … … A
Viet Nam … … … C
Virgin Islands (U.S.) … … B
Wake Island … … … C
Western Samoa … … C
Yemen Arab Republic … … C
Yemen (Peoples’ Dem. Rep.) … C
Zaire (Rep. of) … … … C
Zimbabwe … … … C
Zambia … … … C
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