Cap. 254 Art. 36Provision of postage stamps.

(1) The Minister shall be responsible for the approval of postage stamp issues and the formulation of a programme in respect of postage stamp issues:

Provided that in doing so the Minister shall consult a stamp advisory board consisting of a chairman and not less than four and more than eight other members appointed by the Minister for a term of not more than three years, which term may be renewed. Subject to the issue of any regulations made under this Act, the Board shall regulate its own procedure in the conduct of its business: Provided further that the Minister may be order in the Gazette delegate his functions under this article to a public officer not below the grade of director within his Ministry.

(2) The Minister may, after consultation with the postal operators concerned, by notice published in the Gazette, direct that any postage stamps, in use at the time of such notice, shall be no longer valid for prepayment of postage, and from and after any day stated in such notice, any postal article stamped with postage stamps so invalidated, shall be deemed to be not duly stamped for the purposes of this Act and of any directives or regulations made thereunder: Provided that any person, having in his possession any postage stamps invalidated by the Minister as aforesaid, may at any time within two months after the day stated in the said notice, surrender the same to a postal operator, who shall exchange them for other valid postage stamps of an equal value.