S.I. No. 202/1980 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 21) Warrant, 1980.

1. Letter

All places

20g or less

Exceeding 20g but not exceeding 50g

Exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g

Exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g

Exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g

Exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1 Kg

Exceeding 1 Kg but not exceeding 2 Kg

16p

30p

40p

78p

150p

250p

405p

Maximum Dimensions: Length width and depth combined 900 mm; greatest dimensions, 600 mm. In roll form, length and twice the diameter combined 1040 mm; greatest dimension 900 mm.

Minimum Dimensions: Length, 140 mm; Width, 90 mm. In roll form, length and twice diameter 170 mm; greatest dimension not less than 100 mm.

2 Kg

2. Postcard

All places

Surface

12p

Maximum Dimensions: Length, 148 mm; Width, 105 mm. Minimum Dimensions: Length, 140 mm; Width, 90 mm.

3. Printed Packet

All places

20g or less

Exceeding 20g but not exceeding 50g

Exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g

Exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g

Exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g

Exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1 Kg

Exceeding 1 Kg but not exceeding 2 Kg

Each extra Kg or part thereof

9p

14p

19p

35p

56p

105p

140p

70p

As for item 1 in this column

2 Kg

Books 5 Kg

4. Small Packet

All places to which service is available

100g or less

Exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g

Exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g

Exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1 Kg

19p

35p

56p

105p

As for item 1 in this column

1 Kg

5. Literature for the Blind

All places to which service is available

Surface

Transmission without charge

As for item 1 in this column

7 Kg

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 letter sixteen pence.

Air Letter

As per form approvedbytheMinister

Air Mail Packet

Postcard:asforitem2in thiscolumn

Other Packet: as for item 1 in this column

As may be permitted by the Minister

As for the appropriate category of Postal Packet

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

1.

Late Fee Postal Packet

A fee (in addition to the postage) not exceeding 3p as may be prescribed.

2.

Customs Clearance Fee on incoming postal packet liable to Customs Duty

A fee of 40p per packet.

3.

Express postal packet — outgoing

Express postal packet — incoming

A fee not exceeding 15p as may be prescribed.

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

4.

Ordinary registration

Late-fee registration

A fee of 40p per packet

A fee (in addition to the ordinary registration fee) not exceeding 6p as may be prescribed.

5.

Advice of delivery

A fee of 15p per registered postal packet.

"

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Compensation Fees

(including Registration)

Maximum

Compensation

P

£

44

50

48

100

52

150

56

200

60

250

64

300

68

350

72

400

76

450

80

500

84

550

88

600

92

650

96

700

100

750

"

GIVEN under my Hand, this 26th day of June, 1980.

MARK KILLILEA,

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the provisions

of the foregoing Warrant.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 26th day of June, 1980.

MICHAEL O'KENNEDY.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Warrant applies to the Foreign Post service and comes into operation on 1st July, 1980. 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.

7. 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 8 of the Warrant of 1979

"(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

For a packet

7½p

exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g

9p

exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g

18p

exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g

31p

exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1 Kg

53p

exceeding 1 Kg but not exceeding 2 Kg

75p

For each extra Kg or part thereof excess of 2 Kg

50p

(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, 66p.

(

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 400p."

FIRST SCHEDULE.

"Rates of Postage

Description

of Postal Packet

Destination

Rate of Postage

Limit of Size

Limit of Weight

S.I. No. 202 of 1980.

FOREIGN POST AMENDMENT (NO. 21) WARRANT, 1980.

I, MARK KILLILEA, 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, 1980 (S.I. No. 20 of 1980), and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby order as follows