S.L. 254.1 Art. 7CPostal articles delivered to a post office not subject to attachment except in certain cases.

(1) Save as otherwise provided in the Act or these regulations, no postal article, while it is in a post office or in the hands of an officer of a postal operator, may for any cause whatsoever, or by any warrant or order of any court or other authority, be seized or garnished, except in the following cases:

(a when the addressee is dead and the postal article is claimed by any of the heirs or other person interested;

(b) when the seizure is ordered by the competent judicial authority in connection with and for the purposes of a criminal action.

(2) In any of the cases mentioned in sub-regulation (1)(a) and

(b) the postal article seized or garnished shall not be delivered except to the person appointed by the competent court and such person shall be bound to secrecy.