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 PARCEL POST AGREEMENT-NEW ZEALAND. ~:!', i~!!: 1493 The two Administrations advise each other, by means of the List tict:~ur:::,:~ of Prohibited Articles published by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, of all prohibited articles. However, they do not assume, on that account, any responsibility towards the cus- toms or police authorities, or the sender. ARTICLE VI. l'TUJ'U.rance. 1. Parcels may be insured up to the amount of 500 francs gold or its equivalent in the currency of the country of origin. However, the Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting coun- tries may, by mutual consent, increase or decrease this maximum amount of insurance. A parcel cannot give rise to the right to an indemnity higher than the actual value of its contents, but it is permissible to insure it for only part of that value. ARTICLE VII. Indemnity. IIl81llaDCe. Muimum. Limitation. Indemnity. 1. Except in the cases mentioned in the section following, the Ad- Allowance to 8eDder. ministrations are responsible for the loss of insured parcels mailed in one of the two contracting countries for delivery in the other and for the abstraction of or damage to their contents. The sender, or other rightful claimant, is entitled on this account Amount reRrIe&ed. to an indemnity corresponding to the actual amount of the loss, ab- straction or damage. The amount of indemnity is calculated on the basis of the actual value (current price, or, in the absence of current price, at the ordinary estimated value) at the time and place of mailing of the parcel, provided in any case that the indemmty shall not exceed the amount for which the parcel was insured and on which the insurance fee has been collected, or the maximum of 500 francs gold. In the case where indemnity is payable for the loss of a parcel or 10l8postap ClD for the destruction or abstraction of the whole of the contents . thereof, the sender is entitled to the return of the postal charges. However, the insurance fees are not in any case returned. In the absence of special agreement to the contrary between the in oc:n~: countries involved no indemnity will be paid by either country for tined for e1th4r eon- the loss of transit insured parcels originating in a country not par- tractinl power. ticipating in this Agreement and destined for one of the two con- tracting countries. When an insured parcel originating in one country and addressed tht~r:=~"· for delivery in the other country is reforwarded from there to a third country or is returned to a third country at the request of the sender or addressee,] the party entitled to the indemnity, in case of loss, rifling or damage occurring subsequent to the refor- warding or return of the parcel by the original country of destina- tion, can lay claim, in such cases, only to die indemnity which the country where the loss, rifling or damage occurred consents to pay, or which that country is obligated to pay in accordance with the agree- ment made between the countries directly interested in the refor- warding or return. Either of the two countries signing the present .!::PGDIibWt' lor Agreement which wrongly forwards an insured parcel to a third country is responsible to the sender to the same extent as the country of origin, that is, within the limit of the present Agreement.