49 Money orders and postal orders
(1) A postal licensee may
(a) arrange for the remittance of moneys to, from or within Zimbabwe through post offices by means of
money orders;
(b) authorise the issue of money orders in the special form of postal orders.
(2) The conditions under which money orders or postal orders shall be issued and paid shall be as prescribed.
(3) Any money paid to a postal licensee in respect of the issue of a money order shall form part of the
licensee’s income, and if a money order is not claimed and the remitter of that money order cannot be found
within three years of the date of the issue of the money order, no liability shall attach to the licensee in respect of
the amount of that money order.
50 Delivery of postal articles
(1) The Authority may, from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, publish the specifications relating to the
number, place, dimensions and other characteristics of letter boxes to be used by postal licensees, and may
approve the installation and use of such other mail delivery systems or arrangements as it thinks fit.
(2) A developer of any residential, commercial or industrial building shall
(a) provide one letter box per unit in the case of any residential building and one letter box per tenant in the
case of any commercial or industrial building; and
(b) ensure that the letter boxes provided under paragraph (a) are numbered in numerical sequence; and
(c) comply with any other specifications published by the Authority in terms of subsection (1).
51 Posting boxes
(1) Subject to such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Authority, a postal licensee may erect,
maintain and use posting boxes and postage label vending machines in any public road, street or highway or in
any other public place, and may remove any such posting box or postage label vending machine erected by it.
(2) The Authority may determine the conditions subject to which a postal licensee shall be entitled to use
posting boxes erected or owned by another such licensee.
52 Provision of postage stamps
(1) In this section
“philatelic archival materials” include
(a) philatelic stamps; and
(b) artworks, proofs, progressive sheets, printed sheets and printing plates of philatelic stamps; and
(c) date-stamps, slogan dies and other artefacts used in connection with the production of philatelic
stamps.
(2) Subject to this Act and any directions given by the Authority, a postal licence authorising the provision by
the licensee of postage stamps may cause postage stamps to be provided of such kinds and denoting such values
as the licensee may determine.
(3) A postage stamp provided under this section shall be used for the prepayment of any postage or other sum
chargeable in respect of any postal article, except where the postal licensee concerned determines that prepayment
may be made in some other manner.
(4) All philatelic archival materials produced by a postal licensee shall be kept in such custody as the
Authority directs.
53 Official marks to be prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted
In any proceedings for the recovery of any postage or other fee or sum payable in respect of a postal article
(a) the production of a postal article having thereon the official mark of a postal licensee denoting that the
article has been refused or that the addressee is dead or cannot be found shall be prima facie evidence of
the fact so denoted; and
(b) the person from whom any postal article purports to come shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed
to be the sender thereof.
54 Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal services
(1) Where any postage or other fee or sum is not prepaid or fully prepaid in respect of a postal article posted
for delivery by a postal licensee, the postal licensee may refuse to deliver the postal article until the postage or
other fee or sum has been paid to or recovered by him.
(2) If any postage or other fee or sum has not been paid or recovered within six months of a written demand
by the postal licensee made to the person liable to pay it, the licensee may dispose of the postal article in any
manner described in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section fifty-five, and paragraph (e) of subsection (1) and
subsection (2) of that section shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such disposal.
(3) An official mark or label on a postal article denoting that any postage or other fee or sum is due in respect
thereof to a postal licensee or to the postal authority of any foreign country shall be prima facie evidence that the
postage or other fee or sum denoted is so due.
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