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Post Office Act 1953

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41Offences relating to conveyance of mails by railway

If any railway undertakers—

(a)refuse or neglect to convey any mail bags tendered to them for that purpose by any officer of the Post Office ;

(b)refuse to convey on their railway any sorting carriage or other vehicle when required so to do by the Postmaster-General under the provisions of this Act;

(c)refuse or neglect to receive, take up, deliver or leave any mail bags, officers of the Post Office, sorting carriages or other vehicles at such places, at such times, on such days, and subject to such reasonable requirements and restrictions as to speed of travelling, places, times, and duration of stoppages, as the Postmaster-General may direct; or

(d)fail to observe such directions respecting the conveyance of mail bags, sorting carriages and other vehicles on - their railway as the Postmaster-General may give,

the undertakers shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

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