제16163호                             관                 보                  2006. 1. 3. (화요일)

2 Postal administrations shall have the right            paid in or that was debited from his
  to collect from customers charges on                   account.
  inquiries lodged in regard to postal money            1.5 Postal administrations may also agree
  order or transfer items.                               among themselves to apply broader
Article 20                                               conditions of liability suited to the
Liability                                                requirements of their internal services.
1 Principle and extent of liability                     1.6 The conditions for applying the principle
  1.1 The postal administration shall be liable          of liability and, in particular, questions of
    for the sums paid in at the counter or               the determination of liability, refund of
    debited against the payer’s account until            amounts owing, recourse, time allowed
    such time as the money order has been                for payment and reimbursements to the
    duly paid or the payee’
                          s account has been             administration that paid the indemnity
    credited.                                            shall   be   those    laid   down   in     the
  1.2 The postal administration shall be liable          Regulations.
    for erroneous information supplied by it            Chapter Ⅴ
    which has caused either non-payment or              Electronic networks
    errors in execution of the transfer of          Article 21
    funds. Liability shall extend to errors of      General rules
    conversion and transmission errors.             1 For the transmission of payments by
  1.3 The postal administration shall be                electronic means, postal administrations
    relieved of all liability:                          shall use the UPU network or any other
    1.3.1 for delays that may occur in the              network which permits fast, reliable and
      transmission, dispatch and payment of             secure transfers.
      instruments and orders;                       2 UPU electronic financial services shall be
    1.3.2 when, owing to the destruction of             regulated between postal administrations on
      official records by a force majeure, they         the basis of bilateral agreements. The
      cannot account for the execution of a             general operating rules for UPU electronic
      transfer of funds, unless proof of their          financial services shall be subject to the
      liability is otherwise produced;                  appropriate provisions of the Acts of the
    1.3.3 when the payer has made no claim              Union.
      within the period prescribed in article           Chapter VI
      19;                                               Miscellaneous provisions
    1.3.4 when the prescription period for          Article 22
      money orders in the issuing country has       Application to open a giro account abroad
      expired.                                      1 When a giro account or another account is
  1.4 In the case of a refund, regardless of the        opened abroad, or a financial product is
    reason for it, the amount refunded to the           applied for abroad, the postal organizations
    sender may not exceed the amount that he            of the countries party to this Agreement

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