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Chapter Three Postal Remittances
Article 21   Domestic remittances and international remittances are divided into the categories of demand transfers and wire transfers.
  Apart from wire transfers, postal remittances should all come in the form of postal money orders or postal gift coupons.
  Subject to approval by the MOTC, Chunghwa Post may write terms and conditions to be printed on the postal money orders or postal gift coupons.
Article 22   The right to cash a postal money order, if not exercised, shall be extinguished three years from the date it is issued.
Article 23   In case a postal money order is not cashed on account of the foregoing Article, Chunghwa Post shall inform the remitter to take it back, and the remitter may not ask for a refund of the handling charge.
Article 24   In case a postal money order is lost or damaged, the remitter or the payee may report the loss or return the damaged postal money order, and, in conjunction with the voiding of the original money order, receive a refund.
  Chunghwa Post shall refuse to accept applications mentioned in the preceding paragraph for postal money orders that have been cashed or refunded in accordance with the provisions set forth in the preceding paragraph.
Article 25   Apart from the postal remittance protocol and its detailed regulations established by Universal Postal Union or the bilateral postal remittance agreements executed by the Republic of China and foreign counterparts, this Act shall govern the handling of international remittances.