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Number 18 of 1969
POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1969
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section | |
Power of Minister to make regulations under sections 4 and 82 of Act of 1908. | |
Acts Referred to | |
Post Office Act, 1908 | 1908, c. 48. |
Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920 | 1920, c. 40. |
Number 18 of 1969
POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1969
Interpretation.
1.—In this Act—
“the Act of 1908” means the Post Office Act, 1908;
“the Minister” means the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
Power of Minister to fix rates of postage, with consent of Minister for Finance, and to provide for certain other matters.
2.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Minister may by warrant make regulations providing for all or any of the following:
(a) the fixing of rates of postage and other sums to be charged in respect of postal packets and the regulation of the scale of weights and the circumstances according to which those rates and sums are to be charged;
(b) the remission of any such rate or sum;
(c) the transmission by post without charge of postal packets of a specified class or classes and the manner in which any such postal packet shall be so transmitted;
provided that the highest rate of postage when prepaid for an inland packet of two or more registered newspapers with or without a supplement or supplements, shall not exceed the prepaid postage for an inland printed packet of the same weight.
(2) Regulations under subsection (1) (a) of this section shall be made by the Minister only with the consent of the Minister for Finance.
Power of Minister to make regulations under sections 4 and 82 of Act of 1908.
3.—The powers vested in the Minister for Finance to make by warrant regulations under sections 4 and 82 of the Act of 1908 are hereby transferred to the Minister, provided that any regulations so made by the Minister by virtue of this section shall, in so far as they make provision for charges, fees or scales of weights or for the accounting for and paying over to any foreign state of any money received by the Minister, be made only with the consent of the Minister for Finance.
Amendment of section 15 of Act of 1908.
4.—Section 15 of the Act of 1908, as amended by section 1 (2) of the Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920, is hereby amended by the substitution of “any postal packets other than letters, those packets” and “any despatch or delivery” for “book packets, pattern or sample packets, and post cards, or any of them, those packets, or cards” and “the despatch or delivery next”, respectively.
Construction of certain references in Act of 1908.
5.—Any reference in the Act of 1908, other than in sections 4, 82 and 83 thereof, to a warrant shall be construed as including a reference to a warrant made under or by virtue of this Act.
Continuance of regulations.
6.—Every regulation made under section 2 (1) of the Act of 1908 and in force immediately before the passing of this Act shall continue in force and any such regulation and any other regulation made under the Act of 1908 and in force immediately before the passing of this Act may be amended or revoked as if made under or by virtue of this Act.
Repeal.
7.—Section 2 (1) of the Act of 1908 is hereby repealed.
Short title, collective citation and construction.
8.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1969.
(2) The Post Office Acts, 1908 to 1951, and this Act may be cited together as the Post Office Acts, 1908 to 1969.
(3) This Act shall be construed as one with the Act of 1908.
Uimhir 18 de 1969
AN tACHT UM OIFIG AN PHOIST (LEASÚ), 1969
[An tiontú oifigiúil.]
[22 Iúil, 1969.]
Léiriú.
1908, c. 48,.
1.—San Acht seo—
ciallaíonn “Acht 1908” an Post Office Act, 1908;
ciallaíonn “an tAire” an tAire Poist agus Telegrafa.
Cumhacht an Aire chun rátaí postais a cheapadh le toiliú an Aire Airgeadais, agus socrú a dhéanamh le haghaidh nithe áirithe eile.
2.—(1) Faoi réir fho-alt (2) den alt seo, féadfaidh an tAire, le barántas, rialacháin a dhéanamh do dhéanamh socrú le haghaidh gach ní nó aon ní acu seo a leanas:
(a) rátaí postais agus suimeanna eile a cheapadh a mhuirearófar i leith pacáidí poist agus rialáil a dhéanamh ar na scálaí meáchain agus na tosca ar dá réir a mhuirearófar na rátaí agus na suimeanna sin;
(b) aon ráta nó suim den sórt sin a mhaitheamh;
(c) post-phacáidí d'aicme shonraithe nó d'aicmí sonraithe a chur ar aghaidh gan táille leis an bpost agus an tslí ina gcuirfear ar aghaidh amhlaidh aon phost-phacáid den sórt sin;
ar choinníoll nach rachaidh an ráta postais is airde, nuair a réamhíocfar é i leith pacáide intíre dhá nuachtán chláraithe nó níos mó, agus forlíonadh nó forlíontaí leo nó gan bheith leo, thar an bpostas réamhíoctha i leith pacáide clóite intíre a cómheáchan.
(2) Ní foláir toiliú an Aire Airgeadais a bheith le haon rialacháin a dhéanfaidh an tAire faoi fho-alt 1 (a) den alt seo.
Cumhacht an Aire rialacháin a dhéanamh faoi ailt 4 agus 82 d'Acht 1908.
3.—Aistrítear leis seo chun an Aire na cumhachtaí atá dílsithe don Aire Airgeadais rialacháin a dhéanamh faoi ailt 4 agus 82 d'Acht 1908 le barántas, ar choinníoll nach foláir d'aon rialacháin a dhéanfaidh an tAire amhlaidh de bhua an ailt seo toiliú an Aire Airgeadais a bheith leo a mhéid go mbeidh socrú iontu i dtaobh muirear, táillí nó scálaí meáchain nó i dtaobh cuntas a thabhairt in aon airgead a bheidh an tAire tar éis a fháil agus aon airgead den sórt sin a ioc le haon stát coigríche.
Leasú ar alt 15 d'Acht 1908.
1920, c. 40
4.—Déantar leis seo alt 15 d'Acht 1908, arna leasú le halt 1 (2) den Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920, a leasú trí “any postal packets other than letters, those packets” agus “any despatch or delivery” a chur in ionad “book packets, pattern or sample packets, and post cards, or any of them, those packets, or cards” agus “the despatch or delivery next”, faoi seach.
Léiriú tagairtí áirithe in Acht 1908.
5.—Déanfar aon tagairt in Acht 1908, seachas in ailt 4, 82 agus 83 de, do bharántas a fhorléiriú mar thagairt a fholaíonn tagairt do bharántas arna dhéanamh faoi réim nó de bhua an Achta seo.
Rialacháin do leanúint i bhfeidhm.
6.—Gach rialachán a rinneadh faoi alt 2 (1) d'Acht 1908 agus a bheidh i bhfeidhm díreach roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith leanfaidh sé i bhfeidhm agus féadfar aon rialachán den sórt sin agus aon rialachán eile a rinneadh faoi Acht 1908 agus a bheidh i bhfeidhm díreach roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith a leasú nó a chúlghairm ionann is dá mba faoi réim nó de bhua an Achta seo a rinneadh an céanna.
Aisghairm.
7.—Aisghairtear leis seo alt 2 (1) d'Acht 1908.
Gearrtheideal, comhlua agus forléiriú.
8.—(1) Féadfar an tAcht um Oifig an Phoist (Leasú), 1969, a ghairm den Acht seo.
(2) Féadfar na hAchtanna um Oifig an Phoist, 1908 go 1969, a ghairm de na hAchta um Oifig an Phoist, 1908 go 1951, agus den Acht seo le chéile.
(3) Forléireofar an tAcht seo agus Acht 1908 mar aon Acht amháin.