Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations the expression“air mail packet” means an outgoing postal packet conveyed or intended to be conveyed at the request of the sender through any part of its course in the post by an air mail service; 14 “air mail service” means a service established by or under the direction of the Postmaster General for the conveyance of mails by air; “coin of gold or silver” means coin of gold or silver whether or not current in the country or elsewhere; “Commonwealth or foreign postal packet” means a postal packet addressed to or received from any place outside the inland service as defined in this subregulation; such packets may be referred to as “for abroad” or “from abroad”; “fictitious postage stamps” means any facsimile, imitation or representation, (whether on paper or otherwise) of any stamp for the time being authorised or required to be used for the purpose of the Post Office or of any stamp denoting a current rate of postage of any country outside the country; “gold bullion” means uncoined and unmanufactured gold; “incoming” applied to a postal packet of any description means received at a Post Office in the country through the post; “inland postal packet” means a postal packet posted within and addressed to a place in the country; “letter” or “letter packet” means any postal packet other than a parcel, unless the contrary is specifically stated; “Letter Post items” include letters, postcards, printed papers, literature for the blind and small packets; “outgoing” applied to a postal packet of any description means a packet posted in the country for despatch through the post to a place either within or out of the country; “parcel” means any postal packet treated, or intended to be treated, under the regulations of the parcel post; 15 “postal form” means a form issued by or under the authority of the Postmaster General; “postal packet” or “packet” means anything that can be sent by post. (2) The Interpretation Act shall apply for the purposes of the construction of these Regulations as it applies to the construction of an Act. CAP. 1.