Crown Proceedings
Act, 1947.
Part I.
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costs and otherwise as the court thinks just, allow that other person to bring proceedings under the said subsection in the name of the sender or the addressee of the packet.
Any reference in this subsection to the sender or addressee of the packet includes a reference to his personal representatives.
(4) Where by virtue of the last preceding subsection any person recovers any money or property which, apart from that subsection, would have been recoverable by some other person, the money or property so recovered shall be held on trust for that person.
(5) Post Office Regulations may be made for prescribing the conditions to be observed for the purposes of this section in relation to registered inland postal packets.
(6) No claim for salvage shall lie against the Crown by virtue of section eight of this Act in respect of anything done to, or suffered in relation to, any postal packets while they are being carried by sea or by air.
(7) In this section:—
- The expression “postal packet” has, subject as hereinafter provided, the same meaning as in the Post Office Act, 1908, and accordingly includes a telegram;
- The expression “Post Office Regulations” has the same meaning as in the Post Office Act, 1908;
- The expression “inland postal packet” means a postal packet which is posted in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for delivery, at any place in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, to the person to whom it is addressed;
- The expression “sender”, in relation to a postal packet, has such meaning as may be assigned to it by Post Office Regulations.
(8) Any reference in this section to a postal packet shall be construed as including a reference to the contents of such a packet.
Provisions relating to the armed forces. 10.—(1) Nothing done or omitted to be done by a member of the armed forces of the Crown while on duty as such shall subject either him or the Crown to liability in tort for causing the death of another person, or for causing personal injury to another person, in so far as the death or personal injury is due to anything suffered by that other person while he is a member of the armed forces of the Crown if—
- (a) at the time when that thing is suffered by that other person, he is either on duty as a member of the armed forces of the Crown or is, though not on duty as such, on any land, premises, ship, aircraft or vehicle for the time being used for the purposes of the armed forces. of the Crown; and
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