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The Post Office Act, 1898

( ACT NO. VI OF 1898 )

Chapter V

CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION OF POSTAL ARTICLES

Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited.
20. No person shall send by post,–
 
 
 
 
(a) any indecent or obscene printing, painting, photograph, lithograph, engraving, book or card or any other indecent or obscene article, or
 
 
(b) any postal article having thereon, or on the cover thereof, any words, marks or designs of an indecent, obscene, seditious, scurrilous, threatening or grossly offensive character.

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