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S.I. No. 132/1998 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 34) Scheme, 1998.
Table of Provisions (16)
Statutory Text (16 Articles)
1. Late Fee Postal Packet
A fee (in addition to the postage of) 15p.
2. Customs Clearance Fee on incoming postal packet from non EU countries liable to customs duty.
A fee of£2.00 per packet.
3. Express postal packet — outgoing
A fee of£2.00.
Express postal packet — incoming
At the scale of fees in force for express delivery of Inland postal packets.
4. Ordinary registration
A fee of£1.70 per packet.
Late fee registration
A fee (in addition to the ordinary registration fee) of 17p.
5. Advice of delivery
A fee of£1.00 per registered postal packet.
THIRD SCHEDULE
Compensation Fees (including Registration)
Maximum Compensation
£
£
1.70
100
2.20
500
2.70
1,000
GIVEN under the Common Seal of AN POST, this 1st day of April, 1998.
PRESENT when the Common Seal of AN POST was affixed hereto
JOHN HYNES, Director
HARRY COOKE, Secretary.
I, MARY O'ROURKE, Minister for Public Enterprise, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme.
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 3rd day of April, 1998.
MARY O'ROURKE,
Minister for Public Enterprise.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
This Scheme applies to the Foreign Post Service and shall be operative from the 6th day of April, 1998. It authorises the cessation of the printed paper service, the restructuring of postage rates for letters, postcards and certain other items, and increases in the postage rates and fees for miscellaneous services.
6. Paragraph 20 of Regulation 3 of the Principal Warrant is hereby revoked.
7. Regulation 7 of the Principal Warrant is hereby revoked.
8. Regulation 12 of the Principal Warrant is hereby revoked.
9. The words "printed packets" shall be deleted from Regulation 15 (4) of the Principal Warrant.
10. Regulation 19 (
e
) of the Principal Warrant is hereby revoked.
11. Regulation 21 (2) of the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the deletion of the words "printed packet".
12. The following words shall be deleted from Regulation 25 of the Principal Warrant: "printed packet".
13. Regulation 27 of the Principal Warrant is hereby revoked.
14. Regulation 28 of the Principal Warrant is hereby revoked.
15. The entries in the First, Second and Third Schedules to this Scheme are hereby respectively substituted for the entries in the First, Second and Third Schedules, as amended, to the Principal Warrant.
FIRST SCHEDULE
Rates of Schedule
Description of Postal Packet
Limit of Size
Limit of Weight
Destination
Rates of Postage
S.I. No. 132 of 1998.
FOREIGN POST AMENDMENT (NO. 34) SCHEME, 1998.
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 Public Enterprise, hereby makes the following Scheme
(i) This Scheme may be cited as the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 34) Scheme, 1998.
(ii) This Scheme shall be operative with effect from the 6th day of April, 1998.