Post office guide part i - India Post

An extra or supplement to a newspaper, bearing the same date as the newspaper and
transmitted therewith, shall be deemed to be part of the newspaper provided that no such extra or
supplement shall be so deemed, unless it consists wholly or in great part of matter like that of the
newspapers and has the title and date of publication of the newspapers printed at the top of each
page.”
NOTE : Any registered newspaper in which a document of any of the following descriptions in particular is
enclosed as a supplement should be treated as a book packed:-
(i) an advertisement sheet printed for an advertiser and sent to the publisher of a newspaper for
distribution with it;
(ii) an advertisement sheet with an order form attached, a prospectus with an application form
attached or a proposal enquiry form;
(iii) any document drawn up in the form of a direct personal communication to the recipient such as
printed circular in the form of a letter purporting to be addressed to a person by whom the newspaper
in which it is enclosed is received.
140. Condition. – (1) (a) A newspaper shall be registered the office of the Supdt./Sr.
Supdt. of post offices in the Postal Division in which it is published or as the case may be, posted
and shall be transmitted at concessional rates during the period for which its registration from the
last renewal thereof, as the case may be, remains in force shall not have expired. The application
for the first registration of a newspaper in the postal division for which it is published except in the
case of newspaper printed or published under the order of any Government of India or for official
purposes be made in the form prescribed for the purpose by the Director General, and be
accompanied by –
(i) 2 copies of the latest issue of the newspaper sought to be registered and
(ii) by a certificate from the District Presidency or Sub-Divisional Magistrate within whose
local jurisdiction the newspaper is printed or published by the Presidency or Publisher
resides, that :
(a) the declaration or declarations require by section 5 of the press and registration of Book
Act 1867 (XXV of 1867) has or have been made or
(b) No such declaration is required under the said Act as the publication is not a newspaper
according to the definition given in the Act.
“The newspaper so registered shall be transmitted by post as registered newspaper from
the place of publication thereof and may also be so transmitted from any other place with
the permission in writing of the Supdt./Sr. Supdt. of post office of the Postal Division in
which such other place is situated”.
(b) The full postage shall be prepaid unless the newspaper is exempted from prepayment of
postage under clause 143.