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S.I. No. 96/1991 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 33) Scheme, 1991.
Table of Provisions (10)
Statutory Text (10 Articles)
1. Late Fee Postal Packet
A fee (in addition to the postage) not exceeding 15p, as may be prescribed.
2. Customs Clearance Fee on incoming postal packet from non EC Countries liable to Customs Duty
A fee of 130p per packet.
3. Express postal packet — outgoing
A fee not exceeding 300p 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 105p per packet.
Late fee registration
A fee (in addition to the ordinary registration fee) not exceeding 17p as may be prescribed.
5. Advice of delivery
A fee of 100p per registered postal packet.
THIRD SCHEDULE
Compensation Fees
(including Registration)
Maximum
Compensation
£
£
1.15
100
1.25
200
1.35
300
1.45
400
1.55
500
1.65
600
1.75
700
1.85
800
1.95
900
2.05
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 ½ kg
£14.50
Each additional ½ kg or fraction thereof up to 5 kg
£ 1.55
Each additional ½ kg or fraction thereof between 5 kg and 20 kg
£ 1.05
Europe
Each Item
Weight not exceeding ½ kg
£16.50
Each additional ½ kg or fraction thereof up to 5 kg
£ 3.10
Each additional ½ kg or fraction thereof between 5 kg and 20 kg
£ 2.10
Remainder of the World
Each Item
Weight not exceeding ½ kg
£21.00
Each additional ½ kg
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
£3.50
£4.50
£4.50
£5.50
Given under the Common Seal of An Post this 7th day of March, 1991.
PRESENT when the Common Seal of An Post was affixed hereto
JOHN HYNES
Director
JIM TREACY
Secretary
I, SÉAMUS BRENNAN, Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme.
SÉAMUS BRENNAN,
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of March, 1991.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Scheme applies to the Foreign Post Service and comes into operation on 2nd April, 1991. 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.
6. Air Letter and 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-two pence for each 10g or part of 10g in weight, and for an air letter, forty-five pence.
Postcard: as for item 2 in this column.
Other Packet: as for item 1 (2) in this column
SECOND SCHEDULE
7. The entries in the First, Second and Third Schedules to this Scheme are hereby respectively substituted for the entries in the First, Second and Fourth Schedules, as amended, to the Principal Warrant.
8. Regulation 8 of Scheme No. 31 is hereby amended by the substitution of "17p per item plus 250p per kg" for "15p per item plus 200p per kg" in paragraph 1 (
c
) and for "17p per item plus 600p per kg" for "15p per item plus 500p per kg" in paragraph 1 (
d
).
9. 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 11 of Scheme No. 31) of the entries in the Fourth Schedule to this Scheme.
FIRST SCHEDULE
RATES OF POSTAGE
Description of postal packet
Limit of Size
Limit of Weight
Destination
Rate of Postage
S.I. No. 96 of 1991.
FOREIGN POST AMENDMENT (No. 33) SCHEME, 1991.
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 Tourism, Transport and Communications, hereby makes the following Scheme