S.I. No. 67/1982 - Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) (Amendment) Regulations, 1982.

1. Ordinary Private Telegrams

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, Maderia, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, San Marino, Spain, Spanish Possessions in North Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Vatican City and Yugoslavia.

35p

70p

Antigua, Antilles (Netherlands), Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Carriacou, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica Island, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, 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)

45p

90p

All other places

60p

120p

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 Mediterranean Basin

(i) Malta

10p

20p

(ii) Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Azores, Balearic Is., Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Libya, Maderia, Monaco, Morocco, Poland, Roumania, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Vatican City

18p

35p

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

10p

24p

(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.)

15p

45p

Rest of World

(i) Ascension, Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brunei, Chatham Islands, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Cook (Hervey) Islands, 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

10p

30p

(ii) All Other places

20p

60p

5. Radiotelegrams

Category

Route/Destination

Charge

Ordinary, standard rate

(a) via Irish coast stations

38p per word

(b) via other coast stations

38p 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

38p per word (plus cost of telegram to country in which coast station is located at urgent rate)

Press, standard rate

via Irish or British Coast Stations

19p per word

Inmarstat, standard rate

via satellite

60p per word

Ships Letter Telegram

via Irish coast Stations only

10p per word

6. Miscellaneous Radiomaritime Services

Description

Charge

Notification of Transmission

( a ) via Irish coast station .. .. ..

170p

( b ) via British coast station .. .. ..

200p

Cancellation

( a ) Before message sent to coast station ..

20p

( b ) After receipt at coast station and before message sent to ship

Coast Station in Ireland .. .. ..

170p

plus reply .. .. .. .. ..

170p

Coast Station in Britain .. .. ..

200p

plus reply .. .. .. .. ..

200p

Information about ships

per enquiry .. .. .. .. .. ..

15p

Abbreviated telegraphic address

Annual fee .. .. .. .. .. ..

500p

Weather Forecast

per enquiry .. .. .. .. .. .. .

152p

Position (QTG) enquiry from ships .. .. ..

150p

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.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 19th day of March, 1982.

JOHN P. WILSON.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 19th day of March, 1982.

RAY MACSHARRY.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for increases in charges of 50% approximately.

S.I. No. 67 of 1982.

TELEGRAPH (FOREIGN WRITTEN TELEGRAM) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1982.

I, JOHN P. WILSON, 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