Central Government Amends Indian Post Office Rules, 1933
Department of Posts, issued a notification on 3rd January 2024, marked G.S.R. 09(E). The Central Government, in the exercise of powers conferred by clause (e) of sub-section (3) of Section 16 and Section 21, along with section 74 of the Indian Post Office Act, 1898, has introduced the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Rules, 2024.
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
(Department of Posts)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 3rd January, 2024
G.S.R. 09(E). —In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (e) of sub-section (3) of Section 16 and Section 21, read with section 74 of the Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Indian Post Office Rules, 1933, namely: –
1. (1) These rules may be called the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Rules, 2024.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Indian Post Office Rules, 1933, (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 42, sub-rule (5) shall be omitted.
3. In rule 43 A of the said rules, sub-rule (4) shall be omitted.
4. In rule 194 B of the said rules, sub-rule (2) shall be omitted.
[F. No. 27-1/2021-PO]
JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN, Dy. Director General
Note. – The principal rules as amended up to the 1st January, 1975 were published in the Posts and Telegraphs Manual Volume – I, Legislative Enactments, Part I, Fifth Edition and lastly amended vide notification number G.S.R. 809 (E), dated the 23rd October, 2023.
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