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S.I. No. 59/1982 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 24) Warrant, 1982.
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
1. Late Fee Postal Packet
A fee (in addition to the postage) not exceeding 6p as may be prescribed.
2. Customs Clearance Fee on incoming postal packet liable to Customs Duty
A fee of 70p per packet.
3. Express postal packet—outgoing
A fee not exceeding 29p 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 70p 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 26p per registered postal packet.
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THIRD SCHEDULE
"
Compensation Fees
(including Registration)
Maximum Compensation
p
£
76
65
82
130
88
195
94
260
100
325
106
390
112
455
118
520
124
585
130
650
136
720
142
790
148
860
154
930
160
1,000
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GIVEN under my Hand, this 19th day of March, 1982.
JOHN P. WILSON.
The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the provisions of the foregoing Warrant.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this
19th day of March, 1982.
RAY MacSHARRY.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
This Warrant applies to the Foreign Post service and comes into operation on 1st April, 1982. 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 increases in compensation for insured 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 not does exceed forty four pence for each 20g or part of 20g in weight and for an air letter thirty 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.
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SECOND SCHEDULE
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 Warrant No. 23).
"(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 .. .. .. ..
13p
For a packet
exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g .. .. ..
18p
exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g .. .. ..
32p
exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g .. .. ..
53p
exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1 Kg .. .. ..
93p
exceeding 1 Kg but not exceeding 2 Kg .. .. ..
130p
For each extra kg or part thereof in excess of 2 Kg .. ..
87p
(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, 106p.
(
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 600p."
FIRST SCHEDULE
"Rates of postage
Description of Postal Packet
Destination
Rate of Postage
Limit of Size
Limit of weight
S.I. No. 59 of 1982.
FOREIGN POST AMENDMENT (No. 24) WARRANT, 1982.
I, JOHN WILSON, 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