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(1)[F1Post Office] may, if [F1it] thinks fit, in relation to any regular mail train—
(a)require that the whole of the inside of any vehicle used for the conveyance of mail bags shall be exclusively appropriated for that purpose;
(b)where the train is a special train, require by notice in writing that the whole of the train shall be appropriated to the service of the [F2Post Office] to the exclusion of all other traffic except such as he may sanction.
(2)The [F1Post Office] may require any railway undertakers to provide and equip separate vehicles fitted up as the [F1Post Office] may direct for the purpose of sorting postal packets therein (in this Act referred to as “sorting carriages”), and the railway undertakers shall attach sorting carriages to such regular mail trains as the [F1Post Office] may direct.
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(4)The royal arms shall be painted on the outside of every sorting carriage instead of any other marking prescribed by law in respect of railway vehicles; but the want of the royal arms on any vehicle belonging to or used by the [F2Post Office] shall not form an objecion to the running of that vehicle on any railway.
(5)For the greater security of mail bags conveyed by regular mail trains, the railway undertakers shall comply with such reasonable directions respecting the conveyance, delivery and leaving of mail bags and [F2persons engaged in the business of the Post Office] accompanying them and vehicles used for the conveyance thereof as the [F1Post Office] may from time to time give, and the undertakers shall be responsible for any failure on the part of their officers or servants to comply with any such directions:
Provided that no [F2person engaged in the business of the Post Office] shall interfere with or give orders to an engine driver or other person having charge of a railway engine, but if any cause of complaint arises it shall be stated to the officer of the railway undertakers having charge of the train or to the chief officer of the undertakers on duty at any station upon the railway.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 20(2)(a)
F2Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)
F3S. 34(3) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 8 Pt. I
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F4Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878, art. 2, Sch. Table (subject to transitional and saving provisions in arts. 3-17); S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2(2), Sch. Table (subject to arts. 3-42)
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