### Post Office Ordinance 《郵政署條例》

7. Exemption from liability
(1) The Government shall not incur any liability by reason of the loss, non-delivery, misdelivery or delay of any postal packet, or by reason of any damage to any postal packet, whether registered or not.
(2) No officer of the Post Office shall incur any liability by reason of such loss, non-delivery, misdelivery, delay or damage, except in the case of fraud or wilful misbehaviour. 
(3) Neither the Government nor any officer of the Post Office shall incur any liability for the loss, non-delivery, misdelivery or delay of, or damage to, any postal article, whether registered or not, caused by the act or default of any person licensed in accordance with subsection (2) of section 6, or caused by the act or default of any servant or agent of any such licensed person. 
(4) Once a money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note has been paid to any person by an officer of the Post Office or by an officer of any other postal authority— (Amended 15 of 2011 s. 85) 
(a) all liability of the Government in respect of the money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note ceases; and 
(b) except in the case of fraud or wilful misbehaviour and except as provided under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (Cap. 615), no officer of the Post Office is to be liable in respect of the money order, telegraph money order, postal order or postal note after the payment. (Amended 23 of 1998 s. 2; 15 of 2011 s. 85; 4 of 2018 s. 41) 
[cf. 1908 c. 48 ss. 13 & 23 U.K.]

8. Decision of Postmaster General as to classification of postal packets final
The decision of the Postmaster General as to whether any postal packet is or contains a circular, a letter, a newspaper, a parcel, a postcard, a printed paper or literature for the blind, and any other decision of the Postmaster General as to the classification of any postal article, shall be final for all purposes. 
(Amended 34 of 1971 s. 2) [cf. 1908 c. 48 s. 19 U.K.]

### Post Office Ordinance 《郵政署條例》

9. Discretion as to relative urgency
It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General in his discretion to decide any question as to the relative urgency of particular mails or particular classes of postal packets and to postpone the delivery or dispatch of any mails or postal packets to the delivery or dispatch of any more urgent mails or postal packets. 
[cf. 1908 c. 48 s. 15 U.K.]

10. Postal packets which cannot be dispatched or delivered
It shall be lawful for any officer of the Post Office to open—
(a) any postal packet upon which the prepayment of postage is compulsory and upon which the proper postage has not been paid; and 
(b) any postal packet which is returned to the Post Office for want of a proper address or from inability to find the person to whom it is addressed or because the addressee refuses to accept it, or which in the opinion of the Postmaster General cannot for any other reason be delivered.

11. Postal packets posted by mistake or with wrong or deficient contents
When any postal packet has been posted by mistake, or has been posted with wrong or deficient contents, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General in his discretion to return such postal packet to the sender on payment of such fee (if any) as may be prescribed by regulation made under this Ordinance.

12. Postal packets which contravene the law, etc.
If the Postmaster General has reason to believe that any postal packet has been posted or sent by post in contravention of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, or that any postal packet whatsoever contains anything which may not legally be sent by post, or contains anything with respect to which or by means of which any offence whatsoever has been or is being committed or attempted, or contains any dutiable article, it shall be lawful for him to open such postal packet and to delay such postal packet and its contents. 
[cf. 1908 c. 48 ss. 17 & 18 U.K.]

### Post Office Ordinance 《郵政署條例》

14. Disposal of postal packets opened under section 10 or 12
(Amended 20 of 2006 s. 68)Any postal packet opened under the authority of section 10 or 12, and the contents of any such postal packet, shall, subject to the provisions of section 32(5) and subject to any regulations made under this Ordinance, be dealt with in accordance with the following provisions— (Amended 20 of 2006 s. 68)
(a) if the Governor gives any direction as to how any such postal packet or its contents or any of its contents shall be dealt with, such postal packet and contents shall be dealt with according to such direction;
(b) subject to any direction of the Governor, if such postal packet or any of its contents is required for the purpose of any pending or contemplated criminal or forfeiture proceedings whatsoever, such postal packet or contents shall be retained by the proper officer so long as may reasonably be necessary for the purpose of such pending or contemplated proceedings;
(c) subject to any direction of the Governor, if such postal packet and its contents are not required, or are no longer required, for any criminal or forfeiture proceedings and if the postal packet and its contents can, and may lawfully, be forwarded or delivered to the addressee, the postal packet and its contents shall be so forwarded or delivered;
(d) subject to any direction of the Governor, if such postal packet cannot, or may not lawfully, be forwarded or delivered to the addressee or if there is no addressee, such postal article and its contents shall if possible be returned to the sender.
[cf. 1908 c. 48 ss. 17 & 18 U.K.]

15. Extension of sections 12 and 14 to articles not transmissible by post
(Amended 20 of 2006 s. 68)The provisions of sections 12 and 14 shall extend also to all articles tendered to or received by the Post Office for transmission by post or delivery, and to the contents of all such articles, whether such articles or contents be transmissible by post or not.
(Amended 20 of 2006 s. 68)