S.I. No. 76/1983 - Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.


S.I. No. 76 of 1983.

TELEGRAPH (FOREIGN WRITTEN TELEGRAM) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1983.

I, JIM MITCHELL, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Telegraph Act, 1885, hereby make, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, the following Regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.

(2) The Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) Regulations, 1980 to 1982, and these Regulations may be cited together as the Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) Regulations, 1980 to 1983.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1983.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

4. The Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) Regulations, 1980 ( S.I. No. 198 of 1980 ), are hereby amended by the substitution of the following Schedule for the Schedule thereto (inserted by Regulation 4 of the Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1981 ( S.I. No. 297 of 1981 )):

"SCHEDULE

1. Ordinary private telegrams

Rate per word

Standard Rate

Urgent Rate

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Azores, Balearic Is., Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt (Arab Rep.), Faroe Is., Finland, France, Germany (Dem. Rep.), Germany (Fed. Rep.), Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Libya, Luxembourg , Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, San Marino, Spain, Spanish Possessions in North Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Vatican City and Yugoslavia.

55p

110p

Antigua, Antilles (Netherlands), Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Carriacou, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica Island, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad, Turks Island, U.S.A. (including Alaska and Hawaii Islands) and Virgin Islands (U.S.A).

65p

130p

All other places

90p

180p

2. The rates for Government Telegrams, Service Telegrams, Telegrams relating to the safety of life (S.V.H ), Telegrams relative to the application of the United Nations Charter and Telegrams concerning persons protected in time of war by the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949 (RCT) (to places where these services are available) are the same as for ordinary private telegrams.

3. The rates for Letter Telegrams and Meteorological Telegrams (to destinations where these services are available) are half the rates for ordinary private telegrams.

4. Press Telegrams

Rate per word

Standard Rate

Urgent Rate

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Azores, Balearic Is., Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt (Arab Rep.), Faroe Is., Finland, France, Germany (Dem. Rep.), Germany (Fed. Rep.), Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Libya, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, San Marino, Spain, Spanish Possessions in North Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Vatican City and Yugoslavia.

18p

36p

Antigua, Antilles (Netherlands), Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Carriacou, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica Island, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad, Turks Island, U.S.A. (including Alaska and Hawaii Islands) and Virgin Islands (U.S.A).

21p

42p

All other places

30p

60p

5. Radiotelegrams

Category

Route/Destination

Charge

Ordinary, standard rate

(a) via Irish coast stations

55p per word

(b) via other coast stations

55p per word (plus cost of a telegram to the country in which the coast station is located at the standard rate)

Ordinary, urgent rate

Available only to coast stations in countries accepting urgent telegrams

55p per word (plus cost of telegram to country in which coast station is located at urgent rate)

Press, standard rate

via Irish Coast Stations

Half the full rate

Inmarsat, standard rate

via satellite

60p per word

Ships Letter Telegram

via Irish coast stations minimum charge as per 22 words:

330p

per each additional word:

15p

6. Miscellaneous Radiomaritime Services

Description

Charge

Notification of Transmission:

(a) via Irish coast station

255p

(b) via British coast station

300p

Cancellation:

(a) Before message sent to coast station

30p

(b) After receipt at coast station and before message sent to ship:

Coast Station in Ireland

255p

plus reply

255p

Coast Station in Britain

300p

plus reply

300p

Information about ships:

per enquiry

50p

Abreviated telegraphic address:

Annual fee

750p

Weather Forecast:

per enquiry

200p

Position (QTG) enquiry from ships

225p

7. Miscellaneous other Services

(1) Service indications are charged for as one word at the appropriate rate for the category of telegram concerned.

(2) A supplementary charge as for seven words at the appropriate rate for the category of telegram concerned is made for a reply in the case of the following services:

(a) Notice of Delivery

(b) Cancellation of a Telegram.

"

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 11th day of March, 1983.

JIM MITCHELL,

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 11th

day of March, 1983.

ALAN M. DUKES.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for increases in charges of 50% approximately.