Postal Services Act 1999 - Singapore Statutes Online (2024)

“addressee”, in relation to a postal article, means the person to whom the communication is addressed;

“code of practice” means a code of practice issued or approved under section23M or 24;

“common property” and “limited common property” have the meanings given by section2(1) of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act2004;

“correspondent”, in relation to a postal article, means the sender or person to whom it is addressed;

“direct mail” means a letter consisting solely of advertising, marketing or publicity material and comprising an identical message (except for the addressee’s name, address and identifying number and other modifications which do not alter the nature of the message) which is sent to more than oneaddressee, to be conveyed and delivered at the address indicated by the sender on the letter itself or on its wrapping;

“Housing and Development Board” means the Housing and Development Board established by section3 of the Housing and Development Act1959;

“installation or plant used for posts” includes all buildings, lands, structures, machinery, equipment, boxes and receptacles used or intended for use in connection with the transmission of postal articles by post;

“letter box” means any box or receptacle which the owner or occupier of any premises has provided or agreed to be used for the receipt of postal articles addressed to those premises;

“mail bag” means any form of container or covering in which postal articles in the course of transmission by post are enclosed by a postal licensee in Singapore or a foreign postal administration for the purpose of conveyance by post, whether or not it contains any such articles;

“parcel locker” means a box or receptacle that is provided or used for the receipt of parcels addressed to any person, but does not include a letter box or a posting box;

“post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee;

“post office” includes any building, house, room, vehicle or place used for the provision of any postal services;

“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles;

“postage stamp” means any label or stamp for denoting any postage or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and includes any adhesive postage stamp or stamp printed, impressed or otherwise indicated on a postal article, whether the postage stamp is issued under this Act or by the government of any other country;

“postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post but does not include any article or thing that the Postal Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post;

“Postal Authority” means the person appointed under section3 to be responsible for the administration of this Act;

“postal licensee” means a person to whom a licence has been granted under section6;

“postal service” means any service for the conveyance of postal articles from one place to another by post, and includes the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sorting, sending, despatching and delivering any postal articles and any other services which relates to any of those services and is provided in conjunction with any of them;

“posting box” includes any pillar box, wall box or other box or receptacle provided by or under the authority of a postal licensee for the purpose of receiving postal articles for transmission by post;

“public parcel locker” means a parcel locker mentioned in section23B(a);

“public parcel locker network” has the meaning given by section23B;

“public parcel locker network operator” means a person appointed by the Postal Authority under section23C(1);

“public postal licensee” means a person designated by the Postal Authority under section7;

“public postal licensee’s installation or plant” means any installation or plant used for posts belonging to or used by a public postal licensee;

“related installation”, in relation to a public parcel locker, includes any structure, equipment or cable used or intended for use with the public parcel locker;

“related software”, in relation to a public parcel locker or a public parcel locker network, means any software used or intended to be used to operate the public parcel locker or public parcel locker network;

“repealed Act” means the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act (Cap.323, 1993Revised Edition) repealed by the Info‑communications Development Authority of Singapore Act (Cap.137A, 2000Revised Edition);

“sender”, in relation to a postal article, means a person whose communication it originates from;

“standard of performance” means a standard of performance issued or approved under section24;

“TAS” means the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore reconstituted under the repealed Act;

“Town Council” means a Town Council established by section4 of the Town Councils Act 1988;