S.I. No. 30/1928 - The Inland Post Amendment (No. 30) Warrant, 1928.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1928. No. 30.

THE INLAND POST AMENDMENT (No. 30) WARRANT, 1928.

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS.

INLAND POST.

THE INLAND POST AMENDMENT (No. 30) WARRANT, 1938.

DATED 1st MAY, 1928.

I, the Minister for Finance and for Posts and Telegraphs of the Irish Free State, in exercise of all the powers now vested in me by the Post Office Acts, 1908 to 1920, the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 , the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do, by this warrant, order, direct and declare as follows:—

Amending of Principal Warrant.

(1) This Warrant shall be read as one with the Inland Post Warrant, 1903 (hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Warrant") and all Warrants amending the same.

(2) Regulation 47 (Return of Parcels) of the Principal Warrant shall be read and have effect as though the following additional paragraph were inserted at the end of the said Regulation:—

"(12) Where a parcel cannot be delivered by reason that the addressee has refused or neglected to pay the Customs or other charges thereon, or for any other reason; and

(a) the name and address of a substituted addressee has been furnished by the sender or addressee and the parcel is forwarded to the substituted address; or

(b) the parcel is subsequently retransmitted to the addressee thereof at the request of the sender or addressee:—

There shall be charged and paid by the addressee additional postage at the appropriate rate chargeable for transmission from the original to the substituted address, or in respect of such retransmission as the case may be."

Commencement of Warrant.

(3) This Warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1928.

Short title.

(4) This Warrant may be cited as the Inland Post Amendment (No. 30) Warrant, 1928.

Date.

Dated this 1st day of May, 1928.

(Signed) EARNÁN DE BLAGHD,

Minister for Finance, and Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Irish Free State.