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S.I. No. 90/1986 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 28) Scheme, 1986.
Table of Provisions (11)
Statutory Text (11 Articles)
1. Letter
(1) Length not less than width multiplied by √2
20g
Member-States of the European Economic Community
20g or less.............................................
28p
Maximum dimensions:120mm x 235mm with a tolerance of 2mm
All places excluding Member-States of the European Economic Community
20g or less.............................................
39p
Minimum dimensions:90mm x 140mm with a tolerance of 2mm Maximum thickness: 5mm
(2) Maximum dimensions
2kg
Member-States of the European Economic Community.
20g or less.............................................
32p
Exceeding 20g but not exceeding 50g.........
66p
Length width and depth combined 900mm; greatest dimension, 600mm with a tolerance of 2mm. In roll form, length and twice the diameter combined 1040mm; greatest dimension 900mm with a tolerance of 2mm
All places excluding Member-States of the European Economic Community.
50g or less..............................................
66p
Exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g.......
94p
All places
Exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g....
188p
Exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g....
359p
Exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1kg.....
624p
Exceeding 1 kg but not exceeding 2 kg....
1014p
Minimum dimensions
Length, 140mm; width 90mm with a tolerance of 2mm. In roll form, length and twice diameter 170mm; greatest dimension not less than 100mm.
2. Postcard
Maximum dimensions
Member-States of the European Economic Community
Surface.................................................
24p
Length, 148mm; width, 105mm with a tolerance of 2mm.
Minimum dimensions
All places excluding Member-States of the European Economic Community.
Surface.................................................
28p
Length, 140mm; width, 90mm with a tolerance of 2mm.
Length at least equal to the width multiplied by √2
3. Printed Packet
As for item 1 (1) in this column
20g
Member-States of the European Economic Community
20g or less.............................................
24p
As for item 1 (2) in this column
2kg
Books
All places
50g or less.............................................
32p
5kg
Exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g.......
44p
Exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g.
80p
Exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g....
144p
Exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1kg.....
240p
Exceeding 1kg but not exceeding 2 kg......
336g
Each extra Kg or part thereof................
168p
4. Small Packet
As for item 1 (2) in this column
1kg
All places to which service is available
100g or less..........................................
44p
Exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g...
80p
Exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g....
144p
Exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1kg.....
240p
5. Literature for the Blind
As for item 1(2) in this column
7kg
All places to which service is available.
Surface
Transmission without charge.
6. Air Letter and Air Mail Packet
Air Letter
As may be permitted by An Post
As per form approved by An Post.
Air Mail Packet
As for the appropriate category of Postal Packet.
All places to which service is available.
Such rate as may be fixed by An Post from time to time provided that the maximum rate for an air mail packet does not exceed forty six pence for each 10g or part of 10g in weight, and for an air letter, forty two pence.
Postcard: as for item 2 in this column.
Other Packet: as for item 1(2) in this column
SECOND SCHEDULE
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1.
Late Fee Postal Packet
A fee (in addition to the postage) not exceeding 11p as may be prescribed.
2.
Customs Clearance fee on incoming postal packet liable to Customs Duty
A fee of 110p per packet.
3.
Express postal packet — outgoing
A fee not exceeding 55p as may be prescribed.
Express postal packet — incoming
At the scale of fees in force for express delivery in Inland postal packets.
4.
Ordinary registration
A fee of 95p per packet.
Late-fee registration
A fee (in addition to the ordinary registration fee) not exceeding 13p as may be prescribed.
5.
Advice of delivery
A fee of 32p per registered postal packet.
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THIRD SCHEDULE
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Service
Maximum Compensation
Registration (Packet)
£20
Registration (Mail bag)
£100
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FOURTH SCHEDULE
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Compensation Fees
(including Registration)
Maximum
Compensation
£
£
1.05
100
1.15
200
1.25
300
1.35
400
1.45
500
1.55
600
1.65
700
1.75
800
1.85
900
1.95
1000
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GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 28th day
of February 1986.
PRESENT when the Common Seal of An Post was affixed hereto
H. COOKE
G. HARVEY
Name
Director
Manager, Company
Secretary's Office
JIM TREACY
Secretary
Description
An Post,
General Post Office,
Dublin 1.
I, JIM MITCHELL, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme.
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 28th day of February 1986.
JIM MITCHELL.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
This Scheme applies to the Foreign Post Service and comes into operation on 3rd March, 1986. It authorises increases in the postage rates for letters, postcards and certain other items and increases in the fees for miscellaneous services. It also authorises increases in compensation for registered items.
7. The Third Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 5 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 23) Warrant, 1981 (
S.I. No. 307 of 1981
) ) of the entries in the Third Schedule to this Scheme.
8. The Fourth Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 6 of Scheme No. 26) of the entries in the Fourth Schedule to this Scheme.
9. Regulation 5 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant, 1956 (
S.I. No. 148 of 1956
) (inserted by Regulation 7 of Scheme No. 26) is hereby amended as follows
(
a
) Paragraph (1) (
a
) substitute "a rate not exceeding 200p" for "140p".
(
b
) Paragraph (1) (
c
) substitute "a rate not exceeding 400p" for "215p".
10. The following Regulation is hereby substituted for Regulation 5 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 5) Warrant, 1957 (
S.I. No. 58 of 1957
)
"5. There shall be charged and paid on outgoing packets to which the Warrant applies the following rates of postage
For a packet not exceeding 50g
26p
For a packet exceeding 50g but not exceeding 100g
35p
For a packet exceeding 100g but not exceeding 250g
63p
For a packet exceeding 250g but not exceeding 500g
113p
For a packet exceeding 500g but not exceeding 1kg
190p
For a packet exceeding 1 kg but not exceeding 2kg
264p
For each extra kg or part thereof in excess of 2kg
132p
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FIRST SCHEDULE
Rates of Postage
Description of postal packet
Limit of Size
Limit of weight
Destination
Rate of Postage
S.I. No. 90 of 1986.
FOREIGN POST AMENDMENT (NO. 28) SCHEME, 1986.
AN POST, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by
Section 70
of the
Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983
(No. 24 of 1983),and with the consent of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Scheme