S.I. No. 14/2009 - Foreign Post Amendment (No. 43) Scheme 2009

1. This Scheme may be cited as the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 43) Scheme 2009.

2. Customs Clearance Fee on incoming postal packet from non-EU countries liable to customs duty.

A fee of €6.00 per postal packet.

GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post,

2 January 2009

DONAL CONNELL,

Director.

MICHAEL TYNDALL,

Secretary.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This Scheme applies to the Foreign Post service and shall be operative from the 1st day of January, 2009. It authorises an increase in the customs clearance fees payable in respect of incoming postal packets from non-EU countries liable to customs duty.

3. In this Scheme:—

“the No. 34 Scheme” means the Foreign Post Amendment (No. 34) Scheme, 1998 (

S.I. No. 132 of 1998

).

“Principal Warrant” means the Foreign Post Warrant of 1949 (

S.I. No. 267 of 1949

) as amended.

4. Words defined in the Principal Warrant shall have the same meaning in this Scheme.

5. The entry in the Schedule to this Scheme is hereby substituted for the entry numbered 2 in the Second Schedule (as inserted by Regulation 15 of the No. 34 Scheme) to the Principal Warrant.

SCHEDULE

S.I. No. 14 of 2009

FOREIGN POST AMENDMENT (No. 43) SCHEME 2009

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

30

th January

, 2009.

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) as amended by Regulation 8(4) of the European Communities (Postal Services) Regulations 2002 (

S.I. No. 616 of 2002

) hereby makes the following Scheme