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The Post Office Act, 1898

Section 50Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles.

In forceChapter X PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

Chapter X PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

Offences by Officers of the Post Office

s. 50

50. Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles Whoever, being employed to carry or deliver any mail bag or any postal article in course of transmission by post, voluntarily withdraws from the duties of his office without permission or without having given one month's previous notice in writing, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to [five hundred taka] or with both.

  1. 35. The words "five hundred taka" were substituted, for the words "fifty taka" by section 4 of the Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1994 (Act No. V of 1994)

End of s. 50. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (1).

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