Cultures or other articles known or believed to contain the living germs of plague may be transmitted by the inland post subject to the following conditions:-(a)Such cultures or other articles aforesaid shall not be accepted for transmission unless they are sent by a commissioned medical officer, a Military Assistant Surgeon or a Medical Practitioner in possession of a qualification not lower than that of L.M.S. of the University of Calcutta, the Punjab, Madras or Bombay, or by a person specially permitted by the Central Government or a State Government to send such cultures or other articles; not unless they are consigned to a Government Laboratory or to a person specially permitted by the Central Government. or a State Government, to send such cultures or other articles: not unless they are consigned to a Government Laboratory or to a person specially permitted by the Central Government or a State Government to receive such cultures or other articles.(b)The cultures or other articles aforesaid shall be securely packed in a hermetically closed tin or adequate strength which shall be placed in a strong outer box of wood or tin with a layer of at least 18 millimetres of raw cotton wool between the inner and outer case.(c)The outer case shall be enclosed in a stout cloth, which shall be securely fastened and sealed and labeled with such distinguishing inscription as will suffice to make immediately manifest the nature of the contents.(d)The sender shall present the parcel at the post office accompanied by a declaration as to the nature of its contents, and a certificate signed by himself to the effect that he has advised the addressee of its dispatch and that such addressee, if the parcel should not be addressed to a Government Laboratory, has been specially permitted by the Central Government, or a State Government, to receive such cultures or other articles. The certificate, moreover, shall show on its face that the sender is a person authorized within the meaning of clause (a) of this rule to send such cultures or other articles.
