South African Institute for Drug Free Sport Act, 1997
R 385
Postal Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 124 of 1998)Chapter IV : Postal Company and Postal Services38. Treatment of unclaimed letters in returned letter office |
| 1) | Subject to subsection (2), any postal article originally posted within the Republic and which is sent to the returned letter office in terms of section 35, may be opened by an employee of the postal company officer designated for that purpose by the postal company and unless it contains any valuable or saleable enclosure or has been posted in contravention of this Act or any other law or with intent to evade payment of the postage chargeable thereon, it must be returned to the sender thereof if his or her name and address are known, and may, if the sender refuses to receive it or if his or her name and address are not known be destroyed or disposed of as determined by the postal company. |
| 2) | Any postal article referred to in subsection (1) the name and address of the sender of which are known but which is of little value or importance, which does not contain any documents, has not been transmitted by registered post and has not been posted by a government department, may, after it has been retained for the period determined by the postal company, be destroyed r disposed of in any other manner determined by the postal company. |
