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New Zealand
Postal Services Amendment Act 1990

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Postal Services Amendment Act 1990 129
Commenced: 7 Sep 1990

An Act to amend the Postal Services Act 1987

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1. Short Title— This Act may be cited as the Postal Services
Amendment Act 1990, and shall be read together with and deemed part of
the Postal Services Act 1987 (hereinafter referred to as the principal
Act).

2. Restriction on carriage of letters—(1) Section 3 (2) of the
principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (c), and
substituting the following paragraph:

(c) Letters delivered by a person engaged by the sender especially
for the purpose, not being a person in the business of
delivering or procuring the delivery of letters:”.

(2) Section 3 (2) (d) of the principal Act is hereby amended by
omitting the expression 500 grams”, and substituting the expression
200 grams”.

(3) Section 3 (2) of the principal Act is hereby further amended by
repealing paragraph (i), and substituting the following paragraphs:
(i) Letters of 200 grams or less in weight carried at any time in
the period commencing on the date on which the Postal Services
Amendment Act 1990 comes into force and ending with the 30th
day of November 1990 if a charge of $1.25 or more per letter is
made in respect of the carriage, taking charge, or sending of
each letter:
(ia) Letters of 200 grams or less in weight carried at any time in
the period commencing on the 1st day of December 1990 and
ending with the 30th day of November 1991 if a charge of $1 or
more per letter is made in respect of the carriage, taking
charge, or sending of each letter:

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(ib) Letters of 200 grams or less in weight carried at any time on
or after the 1st day of December 1991 if a charge of 80 cents
or more per letter is made in respect of the carriage, taking
charge, or sending of each letter:”.

(4) Section 3 (2) of the principal Act is hereby further amended by
repealing paragraph (k), and substituting the following paragraphs:
(k) Letters carried to the premises of a provider of electronic mail
services for the purposes of being transmitted as electronic
mail:
(l) Letters carried from the premises of a provider of electronic
mail services where the contents of such letters have been
carried and transmitted in accordance with paragraph (k) of
this subsection:
(m) Letters addressed to a person or persons outside New Zealand.”

3. New sections inserted in relation to furnishing of
information—The principal Act is hereby amended by adding the
following sections:

18. Information to be furnished in annual report—(1) For the
purposes of this section,—
Agency post office’ means an outlet that is owned and operated
by a person other than the Corporation and that offers postal
and other services pursuant to an agreement with the
Corporat

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New Zealand
Postal Services Act 1987

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Postal Services Act 1987 113
Commenced: 1 Jan 1988

An Act to regulate the provision of postal services

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1. Short Title and commencement—(1) This Act may be cited as the
Postal Services Act 1987.

(2) This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1988.

2. Interpretation—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise
requires,—
Corporation” means New Zealand Post Limited, a company
incorporated under the Companies Act 1955 pursuant to the
State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986:
Dangerous enclosure” includes any explosive, dangerous, or
destructive substance or fluid, and any matter or thing capable,
as packed, of causing injury or damage to any postal article or
any person:
Document exchange” means a place where documents are deposited
for collection by the addressee:
Letter” means any form of written communication or other document
or article that is directed to a specific person or a specific
address and is to be conveyed other than by electronic means;
and includes a packet, package, or wrapper containing any such
communication:
Postage stamp” means an adhesive label or impression on any
stationery denoting payment of the fee chargeable for the
carriage of a postal article:
Postal article” means a letter, parcel, or other article that has
been posted and has not been delivered; and includes an article
that, although it may have been delivered within the meaning of
subsection (3) of this section, has not reached the hands of the
addressee:
Post office” means any building, house, room, vehicle, or place
where, under the control of the Corporation, postal articles are

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received or delivered, or where they are sorted, made up, or
dispatched.

(2) An article shall be deemed to have been posted when, for the
purpose of being conveyed or delivered by the Corporation, it has been
put into a Corporation letterbox, or delivered at a post office, or
accepted for the purpose of being conveyed by post by an employee or an
agent of the Corporation in the course of his or her duty or authority.

(3) A postal article shall be deemed to be delivered to the addressee
when it is delivered by the Corporation at his or her house or office,
or into his or her letterbox or rural delivery box, or into the proper
private box at a post office, or to his or her employee or agent or
other person considered to be authorised to receive the article, or
according to the usual manner of delivering postal articles to the
addressee.

3. Restriction on carriage of letters—(1) No person other than the
Corporation shall carry any letter for hire or reward.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall apply to—
(a) Trade announcements, circulars, printed extracts from newspapers,
or advertisements, not addressed to any person: