Section 22: Inspection and disposal of postal articles suspected or found to contain application, etc., for advertisement of a fraudulent nature

(1) An officer of the Postal Service not below the rank of head postmaster may-
(a) if he suspects that a postal article consists of or contains an application for, or reply to, an advertisement which, if sent through the post office, would be liable to be dealt with under subsections (1) and (2) of section 21 of this Act; or
(b) if he suspects that a postal article consists of or contains any such application, detain the article and submit it to the Postmaster-General or to such other officer of the Postal Service above the rank of head postmaster as the Postmaster-General may so appoint for the purpose, and the Postmaster-General or other officer so appointed may thereupon open the postal article for the purposes of inspection.
(2) If on an inspection under subsection (1) of this section, it appears to the Postmaster-General or any other officer so appointed under that subsection, that the postal article consists wholly or partly of an application for, or a reply to, an advertisement, which if sent through the post office, would be liable to be dealt with under subsections (1) and (2) of section 23 of this Act, or of a reply to any such application, he may destroy all or any part of such postal article or otherwise dispose of the same in such manner as he may deem expedient in the circumstance.
(3) A money order, postal order, or other remittance comprised in a postal article to which this section relates, shall be returned to the sender thereof unless the sender is the person who issued the advertisement, in which case, the money order, postal order, or other remittance shall be forwarded to the addressee.