Cap. 254 чл. 42Meaning of "in course of transmission and delivery".

For the purposes of this Act -

(a) a postal article shall be deemed to be in course of transmission by post from the time of its being delivered to a post office to the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or of its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under article 43;

(b) the placing of a postal article in any post office letter-box, or the delivery of a postal article to an officer of a postal operator authorised to receive such postal article for transmission by post, shall be deemed to be delivery to a post office;

(c) the delivery of a postal article at the house or office of the addressee, or to the addressee or to his servant or agent or other person considered to be authorised to receive the article according to the usual manner of delivering postal articles to the addressee, shall be deemed to be delivery to the addressee;

(d) when the addressee is a guest or a resident at a hotel, lodging house, club, hospital, institution or place of work, a postal article shall be deemed to have been delivered to the addressee if delivered to the person who, as owner or manager of any such place as aforesaid or as agent for or an employee in any such place, is considered to be responsible for receiving postal articles: Provided that if the postal article so deemed to have been delivered is not claimed by or forwarded to the addressee within one month, the person responsible for or in charge of the hotel, lodging house, club, hospital, institution or place of work shall, in the absence of contrary instructions of the addressee, return forthwith the postal article to the postal operator who shall dispose of such postal article as provided under the provisions of article 23.