The postal company may refuse to issue or pay any money order, postal order or other document authorised to be used for the purpose of remitting money through the postal company, in favour of any person in respect of whom a competent court has authorised such refusal and where payment of any such money order, postal order, or other document is so refused, such money order, postal order, or other document may, if it was issued in the Republic, be returned to the person to whom it was originally issued or otherwise disposed of as the court may determine, or, if it was issued outside the Republic, the amount thereof must be returned to the postal authority of the country in which it was issued.