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S.I. No. 297/1981 - Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1981.
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
1. Ordinary Private Telegrams
Destinations
Rate per word
Standard Rate
Urgent Rate
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Azores, Balearic Is., Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt (Arab Rep.), Faroe Is., Finland, France, Germany (Dem. Rep.), Germany (Fed. Rep.), Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Libya, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rou-mania, San Marino, Spain, Spanish Possessions in North Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Vatican City and Yugoslavia
23p
46p
Antigua, Antilles (Netherlands), Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Carriacou, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica Island, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montser- rat, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad, Turks Island, U.S.A. (including Alaska and Hawaii Islands) and Virgin Islands (U.S.A.)
30p
60p
All other places
40p
80p
2. The rates for Government Telegrams, Service Telegrams, Telegrams relating to the safety of life (S.V.H.), Telegrams relative to the application of the United Nations Charter and Telegrams concerning persons protected in time of war by the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949 (RCT) (to places where these services are available) are the same as for ordinary private telegrams.
3. The rates for Letter Telegrams and Meteorological Telegrams (to destinations where these services are available) are half the rates for ordinary private telegrams.
4. Press Telegrams
Destinations
Rate per word
Standard Rate
Urgent Rate
Europe and the Mediterranean Basin
(i) Malta
7p
13p
(ii) Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Azores, Bal- earic Is., Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Libya, Madeira, Monaco, Morocco, Poland, Rou- mania, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, USSR, Vatican City
12p
23p
North America and Caribbean
(i) Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Carriacou, Cayman Islands, Dominica Island, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad and Turks Island
7p
16p
(ii) Antilles (Netherlands), Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Pierre and Miquelon, U.S.A. (including Alaska and Hawaii Islands) and Virgin Islands (U.S.A.)
10p
30p
Rest of World
(i) Ascension, Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brunei, Chatham Islands, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Cook (Hervey) Island, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaya, Mauritius, Nauru, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norfolk Islands, Papua, Rodriguez Islands, St. Helena, Sabah, Samoa (Western), Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Tristan da Cunha, Uganda, Willis Islands, Zambia and Zimbabwe
7p
22p
(ii) All other places
13p
40p
5. Radiotelegrams
Category
Route/Destination
Charge
Ordinary, standard rate
(a) via Irish or British coast stations
24p
(b) via other coast stations
24p per word (plus cost of a telegram to the country in which the coast station is located at the standard rate)
Ordinary, urgent rate
Available only to coast stations in countries accepting urgent telegrams
24p per word (plus cost of telegram to country in which coast station is located at urgent rate)
Ordinary, reduced rate
via Irish Coast Stations only
15p per word
Press, standard rate
via Irish or British Coast Stations
13p per word
Press, reduced rate
via Irish Coast Stations only
7p per word
Warships, standard rate
(a) to Ships in Home Fleet
10p per word
(b) to Ships serving abroad
15p per word
Marisat, standard rate
via satellite (Marisat)
58p per word
Ships Letter Telegram
via Irish Coast Stations only
5p per word
6. Miscellaneous Radiomaritime Services
Description
Charge
Notification of Transmission
(a) via Irish coast station
115p
(b) via British coast station
133p
Cancellation
(a) Before message sent to coast station
15p
(b) After receipt at coast station and before message sent to ship
Coast station in Ireland
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115p
plus reply
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115p
Coast station in Britain
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133p
plus reply
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133p
Information about ships
per enquiry
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15p
Abbreviated telegraphic address for radiotelegrams from ships
Annual fee
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38p
Weather forecast
per enquiry
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152p
Position (QTG) enquiry from ships
75p
7. Miscellaneous other services
(1) Services indications are charged for as one word at the appropriate rate for the category of telegram concerned.
(2) A supplementary charge as for seven words at the appropriate rate for the category of telegram concerned is made for a reply in the case of the following services
(a) Notice of Delivery.
(b) Cancellation of a Telegram.
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 24th day of August, 1981.
PATRICK COONEY,
The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 24th day of August, 1981.
JOHN BRUTON.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)
The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for increases in charges of 5% approximately.
I, PATRICK COONEY, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Telegraph Act, 1885, hereby make, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, the following Regulations