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S.I. No. 364/1989 - Foreign Post Amendmet (No. 31) Scheme, 1989.
Table of Provisions (13)
Statutory Text (13 Articles)
1. Late Fee Postal Packet
A fee (in addition to the postage) not exceeding 12p, as may be prescribed.
2. Customs Clearance Fee on incoming postal packet from non EC Countries liable to Customs Duty
A fee of 120p per packet.
3. Express postal packet— outgoing
A fee not exceeding 150p 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 100p per packet.
Late fee registration
A fee (in addition to the ordinary registration fee) not exceeding 14p as may be prescribed.
5. Advice of delivery
A fee of 34p per registered postal packet.
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THIRD SCHEDULE
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Compensation Fees
(including Registration)
Maximum Compensation
£
£
1.10
100
1.20
200
1.30
300
1.40
400
1.50
500
1.60
600
1.70
700
1.80
800
1.90
900
2.00
1000
FOURTH SCHEDULE
International EMS Service (to places outside the State)
Rates available to every user of the service
United Kingdom
Each Item
Weight not exceeding ½kg
£14.00
Each additional ½kg or fraction thereof up to 5 kg
£ 1.50
Each additional ½kg or fraction thereof between 5 kg and 20 kg
£ 1.00
Europe
Each Item
Weight not exceeding ½kg
£16.00
Each additional ½kg or fraction thereof up to 5 kg
£ 3.00
Each additional ½kg or fraction thereof between 5 kg and 20 kg
£ 2.00
Remainder of the World
Each Item
Weight not exceeding kg
£20.00
Each additional ½kg or fraction thereof
Zone A
Zone B
Zone C
Zone D
Up to 5 kg
£5.00
£6.00
£6.50
£7.00
Between 5 kg and 20 kg
£3.00
£4.00
£4.00
£5.00
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Given under the Common Seal of An Post this 19th day of December, 1989.
PRESENT when the Common Seal of An Post was affixed hereto
G. HARVEY
Director
J. TREACY
Secretary
An Post,
General Post Office,
Dublin 1.
I, RAY BURKE, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme.
RAY BURKE,
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 19th day of December, 1989.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Scheme applies to the Foreign Post Service and comes into operation on 1st January, 1990. It authorises increases in the postage rates for letters, postcards and certain other items, increases in the rates for Express Mail Services and increases in the fees for miscellaneous services. It also authorises An Post to extend the bulk post services to include all letter post items.
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 fifty 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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7. Regulation 4 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant, 1956 (
S.I. No. 148 of 1956
), is hereby amended by the substitution in paragraph 1 for "printed packets" of "letter packets".
8. The following regulation is hereby substituted for Regulation 7 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 26) Scheme, 1985 (
S.I. No. 139 of 1985
)
"7. (1) There shall be charged and paid on every mail bag containing letter post items to which this Scheme applies for every kg weight of the mail bag and its contents and for every item therein whichever of the following rates is appropriate:—
(
a
) In the case of a mail bag containing packets addressed to one and the same addressee conveyed by surface means, a rate not exceeding 200p per kg.
(
b
) In the case of a mail bag containing packets addressed to one and the same addressee conveyed by air over all or part of the route, a rate not exceeding 400p per kg.
(
c
) In the case of a mail bag containing packets addressed to different addresses conveyed by surface means, a rate not exceeding 15p per item plus 200p per kg.
(
d
) in the case of a mail bag containing packets addressed to different addresses conveyed by air over all or part of the route, a rate not exceeding 15p per item plus 500p per kg.
(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1) of this Regulation the weight of the mail bag and its contents shall be calculated to the next nearest kg."
9. Regulation 5 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 5) Warrant, 1957 (
S.I. No. 58 of 1957
) (inserted by Regulation 10 of Scheme No. 28) is hereby deleted.
10. Regulation 8 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 27) Scheme, 1985 (
S.I. No. 95 of 1985
), is hereby deleted.
11. The following Regulation is hereby substituted for Regulation 10 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 27) Scheme, 1985 (
S.I. No. 95 of 1985
)
"10. (1) There shall be charged and paid upon Express Mail Packets the rates specified in the First Schedule to this Scheme.
(2) An Post shall determine from time to time in what destination zone a particular destination shall be included and it may proclaim such determination from time to time by public notice, advertisement or otherwise as it sees fit."
and the First Schedule to the said Scheme, as inserted by the First Schedule to the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 29) Scheme, 1986 (
S.I. No. 91 of 1986
), shall be replaced by the Fourth Schedule to this scheme, and the Second Schedule to the said Scheme is hereby deleted.
12. The First Schedule to the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 27) Scheme, 1985 (
S.I. No. 95 of 1985
), is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 3 of the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 29) Scheme, 1986 (
S.I. No. 91 of 1986
)) of the entries in the Fourth Schedule to this Scheme.
FIRST SCHEDULE
RATES OF POSTAGE
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Description of postal packet
Limit of Size
Limit of Weight
Destination
Rate of Postage
S.I. No. 364 of 1989.
FOREIGN POST AMENDMET (No. 31) SCHEME, 1989.
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