S.L. 254.1 Art. 7AFictitious or used postage stamps.

(1) Where a postal article is received by post at any post office -

(a) bearing a fictitious stamp; or

(b) purporting to be prepaid with any postage stamp which has been previously used to prepay any other postal article or which has otherwise been previously used for any other purpose, an officer of a postal operator shall, if the addressee resides in Malta, send a notice to the addressee inviting him to attend, either in person or by means of an agent, within a specified time at a post office to receive delivery of the postal article, and if the addressee resides abroad, the postal operator shall deal with the postal article in such manner as the Authority may deem in the circumstances appropriate.

(2) If the addressee or his agent attends at a post office within the time specified in the notice and consents to make known to the said officer the name and address of the sender of the postal article and to re-deliver to the officer aforesaid the portion of the postal article which bears the address and the fictitious or previously used postage stamp or, if the postal article is inseparable from the stamp, the entire postal article, the postal article shall be delivered to the addressee or his agent.

(3) If the addressee, or his agent, fails to attend at a post office within the time specified in the notice, or having attended within that time, refuses to make known the name and address of the sender or to re-deliver the postal article or portion thereof as required by sub-regulation (2), the postal article shall not be delivered to him, but shall be disposed of by the postal operator in such manner as the Authority may direct, forfeiture excluded.