Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “delivery to the Post Office” includes delivery to a letter carrier or other person authorised to receive postal packets for the post; “delivery to the person addressed” includes a delivery at the house or office of the person to whom the postal packet is addressed, or to him, or to his servant, agent or other person considered to be authorised to receive the postal packet according to the usual manner of delivering that person’s “inland”, when used in relation to any postal packet or any description thereof, means posted within Belize and addressed to some place in Belize, and, when used in relation to post or postage, means the post carrying or the postage charged on the 7 “mail” includes every conveyance by which postal packets are carried, whether it is a horse, vehicle, vessel, aircraft or any other aircraft conveyance, and also a person employed in conveying or delivering postal packets; “mail bag” means a bag, box or parcel, or any other envelope in which postal packets are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain postal packets; “master of a vessel” includes any person in charge of a vessel, whether as commander, mate or other person; “officer of the Post Office” includes the Postmaster General and any district postmaster, officer, clerk, letter carrier or any other person employed in any business of the Post Office, whether appointed by the Governor General, or employed by the Postmaster General, or by the Public Services Commission, or by any other person under him or on behalf of the Post “postal packet” means anything in course of transmission by post from the time of its delivery to a Post Office to the time of its delivery to the person to whom it is addressed, and, in the provisions of this Act for the protection or benefit of the Post Office, for the protection of mails, mail bags and officers of the Post Office, and touching offences committed in relation to a postal packet, includes a telegram; “post office” means any house, building, room, vehicle, vessel, or place where postal packets, or any of them, are, by the permission or under the authority of the Postmaster General received, delivered, sorted, or made up, or from which postal packets, or any of them, are, by the authority of the Postmaster General, despatched, and includes a post office letter-box; “post office letter-box” includes any pillar-box, wall-box, or other box or receptacle, provided by the permission or under the authority of the Postmaster General for the purpose of 8 receiving postal packets, or any of them, for transmission by or under the authority of the Postmaster General; “post office packet” includes vessels belonging to or employed by the Government, or vessels employed for the conveyance of postal packets under contract; “vessel” includes any ship or boat other than a post office Postmasters and other Officers.