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S.I. No. 307/1981 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 23) Warrant, 1981.
Table of Provisions (9)
Statutory Text (9 Articles)
1. Late Fee Postal Packet
A fee (in addition to the postage) not exceeding 5p as may be prescribed.
2. Customs Clearance Fee on incom- ing postal packet laible to Cus- toms Duty
A fee of 58p per packet.
3. Express postal packet-outgoing
A fee not exceeding 23p 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 58p per packet.
Late-fee registration
A fee (in addition to the ordinary registration fee) not exceeding 8p as may be prescribed.
5. Advice of delivery
A fee of 22p per registered postal packet.
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THIRD SCHEDULE
“
Service
Maximum Compensation
Registration
£13.50
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FOURTH SCHEDULE
“
Compensation Fees
Maximum
(including Registration)
Compensation
p
£
63
50
68
100
73
150
78
200
83
250
88
300
93
350
98
400
103
450
108
500
113
550
118
600
123
650
128
700
133
750
”
GIVEN under my Hand, this 31st day of August, 1981.
PATRICK COONEY.
The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the provisions of the foregoing Warrant.
JOHN BRUTON.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 31st day of August, 1981.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)
This Warrant applies to the Foreign Post service and comes into operation on 1st September, 1981. 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, customs clearance and other miscellaneous 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 twenty-five pence.
Air Letter
As per form approved by the Minister
As may be permitted by the Minister
Air Mail Packet
Postcard: as for item 2 in this column.
As for the apporpriate category of Postal Packet
Other Packet: as for item 1 in this column.
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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 6 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 21) Warrant, 1980 (
S.I. No. 202 of 1980
), is hereby amended by the substitution for “95p” of “127p”.
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 respectively by Regulation 6 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 22) Warrant, 1981 (
S.I. No. 117 of 1981
) and Regulation 7 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 21) Warrant, 1980 (
S.I. No. 202 of 1980
).
“(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 ............................................................ .......
11p
For a packet
exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g .........................................................
14p
” 100g but not exceeding 250g ........................................................
26p
” 250g but not exceeding 500g ........................................................
44p
” 500g but not exceeding 1 Kg ........................................................
77p
” 1 Kg but not exceeding 2 Kg ......................................................
108p
For each extra kg or part thereof
in excess of 2 Kg ............................................................ ............................
72p
(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, 88p
(
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 500p.”
FIRST SCHEDULE
“Rates of Postage
Description of Postal Packet
Destination
Rate of Postage
Limit of Size
Limit of weight
I, PATRICK COONEY, Minister for 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 with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby order as follows