S.I. No. 261/1979 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 20) Warrant, 1979.

1. Late Fee Postal Packet

A fee (in addition to the postage) not exceeding 2½p as may be prescribed.

2. Customs Clearance Fee on incoming postal packet liable to Customs Duty.

A fee of 33p per packet.

3. Express postal packet—outgoing

A fee not exceeding 12p as may be prescribed.

Express postal packet—incoming

At the scale of fees in force for express delivery of Inland postal packets.

4. Ordinary registration

A fee of 32p per packet.

Late-fee registration

A fee (in addition to the ordinary registration fee) not exceeding 5p as may be prescribed.

5. Advice of delivery

A fee of 12p per registered postal packet.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Service

Registration

Maximum Compensation

£8.80

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

Compensation Fees

(including Registration)

Maximum

Compensation

p

35

38

41

44

47

50

53

56

59

62

65

68

71

74

77

£

40

80

120

160

200

240

280

320

360

400

440

480

520

560

600

GIVEN under my Hand, this 27th day of July, 1979.

TOM FITZPATRICK,

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the provisions of the foregoing Warrant.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 27th

day of July, 1979.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Warrant applies to the Foreign Post service and comes into operation on 1st August, 1979. It authorises increases in the postage rates for letters, postcards, printed packets (ordinary rate, reduced rate, bulk post rates and accelerated surface bulk rates) and small packets as well as in the fees for the express delivery, registration, insurance and customs clearance services. It also authorises an increase in the maximum compensation for registered letter packets.

6. Air Letter and Air Mail Packet

All places to which service is available

Such rate as may be fixed by the Minister from time to time, provided that the maximum rate for an air mail packet does not exceed thirty seven pence for each 20g or part of 20g in weight and for an air letter fifteen pence.

Air Letter

As may be permitted by the Minister

As per form approved by the Minister

Air Mail Packet

Postcard: as for item 2 in this column

As for the appropriate category of Postal Packet

Other Packet: as for item 1 in this column

SECOND SCHEDULE.

7. Regulation 5 (1) of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant, 1956 (

S.I. No. 148 of 1956

) (inserted by Regulation 6 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 15) Warrant, 1974 (

S.I. No. 281 of 1974

)), as amended by Regulation 3 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 19) Warrant, 1978 (

S.I. No. 174 of 1978

), is hereby amended by the substitution for "62p" of "75p".

8. The Foreign Post Amendment (No. 5) Warrant, 1957 (

S.I. No. 58 of 1957

), is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraphs for paragraphs (1) and (2) of Regulation 5, inserted by Regulation 7 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 18) Warrant, 1977, and amended by Regulation 4 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 19) Warrant, 1978—

"(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this Regulation there shall be charged and paid on outgoing packets to which this Warrant applies the following rates of postage

For a packet not exceeding 50g ............................................................ ....................................................

6p

For a packet exceeding 50g. but not exceeding 100g ............................................................ ................

7p

For a packet exceeding 100g. but not exceeding 250g ............................................................ ..............

14p

For a packet exceeding 250g. but not exceeding 500g ............................................................ ..............

25p

For a packet exceeding 500g. but not exceeding 1 kg ............................................................ ...............

42p

For a packet exceeding 1 kg. but not exceeding 2kg ............................................................ .................

60p

For each extra kg. or part thereof excess of 2kg ............................................................ .........................

40p

(2) Where the Minister has made arrangements with the senders for the transmission of outgoing packets to which this Warrant applies in mail bags provided by the Minister, there shall be charged and paid on every mail bag containing such packets the following rates of postage

(

a

) For every kg. weight of the mail bag and its contents conveyed by surface means,53p.

(

b

) For every kg. weight of the mail bag and its contents conveyed by air over all or part of the route, a rate not exceeding 348p".

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Rates of Postage.

Description of Postal Packet

Destination

Rate of Postage

Limit of Size

Limit of Weight

S.I. No. 261 of 1979.

FOREIGN POST AMENDMENT (NO. 20) WARRANT, 1979.

I, TOM FITZPATRICK, Minister of State at the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 2

,

3

and

6

of the

Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1969

(No. 18 of 1969), and the Posts and Telegraphs (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1978 (

S.I. No. 3 of 1978

), and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby order as follows