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S.I. No. 76/1983 - Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
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 , Madeira, 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.
55p
110p
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).
65p
130p
All other places
90p
180p
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
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, Roumania, San Marino, Spain, Spanish Possessions in North Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Vatican City and Yugoslavia.
18p
36p
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).
21p
42p
All other places
30p
60p
5. Radiotelegrams
Category
Route/Destination
Charge
Ordinary, standard rate
(a) via Irish coast stations
55p per word
(b) via other coast stations
55p 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
55p per word (plus cost of telegram to country in which coast station is located at urgent rate)
Press, standard rate
via Irish Coast Stations
Half the full rate
Inmarsat, standard rate
via satellite
60p per word
Ships Letter Telegram
via Irish coast stations minimum charge as per 22 words
330p
per each additional word
15p
6. Miscellaneous Radiomaritime Services
Description
Charge
Notification of Transmission
(a) via Irish coast station
255p
(b) via British coast station
300p
Cancellation
(a) Before message sent to coast station
30p
(b) After receipt at coast station and before message sent to ship
Coast Station in Ireland
255p
plus reply
255p
Coast Station in Britain
300p
plus reply
300p
Information about ships
per enquiry
50p
Abreviated telegraphic address
Annual fee
750p
Weather Forecast
per enquiry
200p
Position (QTG) enquiry from ships
225p
7. Miscellaneous other Services
(1) Service 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 11th day of March, 1983.
JIM MITCHELL,
The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 11th
day of March, 1983.
ALAN M. DUKES.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for increases in charges of 50% approximately.
S.I. No. 76 of 1983.
TELEGRAPH (FOREIGN WRITTEN TELEGRAM) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1983.
I, JIM MITCHELL, 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