Commonwealth Numbered Acts

POSTAL SERVICES ACT 1975 No. 54, 1975 - SECT 104

104. (1) Proceedings do not lie against the Commission, an officer or employee
of the Commission, a person acting for or on behalf of the Commission under a
contract with the Commission or an employee of such a person in respect of any
loss or damage suffered by a person by reason of any default, delay, error,
omission or loss in the receipt, transmission or delivery of postal articles
or of money by post or of articles transmitted by the courier service.

(2) Where money transmitted by post is paid to the person applying for payment
of the money, the Commission is not liable to any person in respect of the
payment of those moneys unless the officer or employee making payment of the
moneys is guilty of fraud or wilful misbehaviour in connexion with the payment
of the moneys.

(3) A reference in this section to the receipt, transmission or delivery of
postal articles includes a reference to any dealing with postal articles in a
manner provided for by the regulations or the By-laws.