Hong Kong Regulations

POST OFFICE REGULATIONS - REGULATION 9

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made - see 23 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Where the postage payable on any postal packet is required to be prepaid
and has not been prepaid or has not been fully prepaid, the following
surcharge shall be payable- (1 of 1987 s. 9)

   (a)  in the case of a postal packet sent from a place outside Hong Kong, a
        fee of $4.00 in addition to the postage or the deficiency as the case
        may be; and (L.N. 184 of 1981; L.N. 60 of 1985; L.N. 191 of 1988; L.N.
        418 of 1993; L.N. 151 of 1995; 23 of 1998 s. 2)

   (b)  in the case of an inland postal packet, double the postage or double
        the deficiency as the case may be, save that in the case of a postal
        packet other than a letter, the Postmaster General may detain the
        packet and return it to the sender.

(2) An air mail packet on which no part, or a part only, of the postage
payable thereon has been prepaid may be dealt with as if it were not an air
mail packet. (L.N. 270 of 1975)