| 1 | Short title, extent, application and commencement | View Details |
| 10 | Power to declare rates of foreign postage | View Details |
| 11 | Liability for payment of postage | View Details |
| 12 | Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles | View Details |
| 13 | Customs duty paid by the Post Office to be recoverable as postage | View Details |
| 14 | Post office marks Prima facie evidence of certain facts denoted | View Details |
| 15 | Official mark to be evidence of amount of postage | View Details |
| 18 | Redelivery to sender of postal article in course of transmission by post | View Details |
| 19 | Transmission by post of anything injurious prohibited | View Details |
| 19 | Transmission by post of tickets, proposals, etc., relating to unauthorized lotteries prohibited | View Details |
| 1 SCHEDULE | INLAND POSTAGE RATES | View Details |
| 2 | definitions | View Details |
| 20 | Transmission by post of anything indecent, etc., prohibited | View Details |
| 21 | Power to make rules as to transmission by post of postal articles | View Details |
| 22 | Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain postal articles | View Details |
| 23 | Power to deal with postal articles posted in contravention of Act | View Details |
| 24 | Power to deal with postal articles containing goods contraband or liable to duty | View Details |
| 24 | Power to deliver such articles to Customs authority | View Details |
| 25 | Power to intercept notified goods during transmission by post | View Details |
| 26 | Power to intercept postal articles for public good | View Details |
| 27 | Power to deal with postal articles from abroad bearing fictitious or previously used stamps | View Details |
| 27 | Prohibition of transmission by post of certain newspapers | View Details |
| 27 | Power to detain newspapers and other articles being transmitted by post | View Details |
| 27 | Procedure for disposal by High Court of applications for release of newspapers and articles so detained | View Details |
| 27 | Jurisdiction barred | View Details |
| 28 | Registration of postal articles | View Details |
| 29 | Power to make rules as to registration | View Details |
| 3 | Meanings of "in course of transmission by post" and "delivery" | View Details |
| 30 | Insurance of postal articles | View Details |
| 31 | Power to require insurance of postal articles | View Details |
| 32 | Power to make rules as to insurance | View Details |
| 33 | Liability in respect of postal articles insured | View Details |
| 34 | Transmission by post of value-payable postal articles | View Details |
| 35 | Power to make rules as to value-payable postal articles | View Details |
| 36 | Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries | View Details |
| 37 | Power to make rules as to disposal of undelivered postal articles | View Details |
| 38 | Disposal of undelivered postal articles at office of Post Master General | View Details |
| 39 | Final disposal of undelivered postal articles | View Details |
| 4 | Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the Government | View Details |
| 40 | Duty of master of ship, departing from any port in India and not being a mail ship, to convey mail bags | View Details |
| 41 | Duty of master of ship arriving at any port in India in respect of postal articles and mail bags on board | View Details |
| 42 | Allowance of gratuities for conveyance of postal articles by ships other than mail ships | View Details |
| 43 | Power to maintain money order system and to make rules as to remittances thereby | View Details |
| 44 | Power for remitter to recall money order or alter name of payee | View Details |
| 45 | Power to provide for the issue of postal orders | View Details |
| 46 | Power to give effect to arrangements with other countries | View Details |
| 47 | Recovery of money order paid to the wrong person | View Details |
| 48 | Exemption from liability in respect of money orders | View Details |
| 49 | Penalty for misconduct of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles | View Details |
| 5 | Punishment of offences committed in a tribal area, Acceding State or other Indian State-Repealed by the Finance Act, 1950 | View Details |
| 5 | Certain persons expressly forbidden to convey letters | View Details |
| 50 | Penalty for voluntary withdrawal from duty, without permission or notice, of person employed to carry or deliver mail bags or postal articles | View Details |
| 51 | Penalty for making false entry in register kept by person employed to carry or deliver postal articles | View Details |
| 52 | Penalty for theft, dishonest misappropriation, secretion, destruction, or throwing away, of postal articles | View Details |
| 53 | Penalty for opening, detaining or delaying postal articles | View Details |
| 54 | Penalty for fraud in connection with official marks and for receipt of excess postage. | View Details |
| 55 | Penalty for fraudulently preparing, altering, secreting or destroying Post Office documents | View Details |
| 56 | Penalty for fraudulently sending unpaid postal articles | View Details |
| 58 | Penalty for contravention of section 4 | View Details |
| 59 | Penalty for contravention of section 5 | View Details |
| 6 | Exemption from liability for loss, misdelivery, delay or damage | View Details |
| 60 | Penalty for breach of rules under section 16 | View Details |
| 61 | Penalty for contravention of section 19, 19A or 20 | View Details |
| 62 | Penalty for defiling or injuring post office letter-boxes | View Details |
| 63 | Penalty for affixing without authority thing to, or painting, tarring or disfiguring, post office or post office letter box | View Details |
| 64 | Penalty for making false declaration | View Details |
| 65 | Penalty for master of ship failing to comply with the provisions of section 40 or 41 | View Details |
| 66 | Penalty for detention of letters on board vessel arriving in port | View Details |
| 67 | Penalty for detaining mails or opening mail bag | View Details |
| 68 | Penalty for retaining postal articles wrongly delivered or mail bags | View Details |
| 69 | Penalty for unlawfully diverting letters | View Details |
| 7 | Power to fix rates of inland postage | View Details |
| 70 | Penalty for abetting, or attempting to commit, offences under Act | View Details |
| 71 | Property
in cases of offences to be laid in the Post Office | View Details |
| 72 | Authority for prosecutions under certain sections of Act | View Details |
| 73 | Zamindari and other district posts | View Details |
| 74 | General power to make rules and provisions as to rules under Act | View Details |
| 75 | Delegation of powers, other than rule-making powers, to Director General | View Details |
| 76 | Indian Post Office Act, 1898 | View Details |
| 77 | Indian Post Office Act, 1898 | View Details |
| 8 | Power to make rules as to payment of postage and fees in certain cases | View Details |
| 9 | Power to make rules as to registered newspapers | View Details |
| Fo | Foot Notes | View Details |
