S.I. No. 262/1979 - Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 13) Warrant, 1979.

S.I. No. 262 of 1979.

FOREIGN PARCEL POST AMENDMENT (No. 13) WARRANT, 1979.

I, TOM FITZPATRICK, Minister of State at the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 2 , 3 and 6 of the Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1969 , (No. 18 of 1969), and the Posts and Telegraphs (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1978 ( S.I. No. 3 of 1978 ), and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby order as follows:—

1. (1) This Warrant may be cited as the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 13) Warrant, 1979.

(2) This Warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of August 1979.

2. In this Warrant "the Principal Warrant" means the Foreign Parcel Post Warrant, 1953 ( S.I. No. 418 of 1953 ).

3. The Second Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by a substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 5 of Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 12) Warrant, 1977 ( S.I. No. 214 of 1977 )) of the entries in the First Schedule to this Warrant.

4. The Third Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 4 of the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 11) Warrant, 1977 ( S.I. No. 50 of 1977 )) of the entries in the Second Schedule to this Warrant.

5. Part I (inserted by Regulation 6 of the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 12) Warrant, 1977) and Part II (inserted by Regulation 7 of the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 8) Warrant, 1971 ( S.I. No. 199 of 1971 )) of the Fourth Schedule to the Principal Warrant are hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein of the entries in Third Schedule to this Warrant.

6. The fifth Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 5 of the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 11) Warrant, 1977) of the entries in the Fourth Schedule to this Warrant.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Maximum Postage:

Parcel (except an Air Mail parcel)	£15 for a parcel not exceeding 10 kg.
Air Mail parcel	£2.50 per 250g.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Customs Clearance Fee:

On each parcel where customs duty is payable	40p
Outgoing Express Delivery Fee	30p
Advice of Delivery Fee on outgoing insured parcel	12p

THIRD SCHEDULE

Part I (Uninsured Parcels)

Weight of Parcel

Compensation

Not over 5 kg.

Not over 10 kg.

£8.80

£13.20

Part II (Outgoing Insured Parcels)

Compensation Fee	Compensation
p	£
3	40
6	80
9	120
12	160
15	200
18	240
21	280
24	320
27	360
30	400
33	440
36	480
39	520
42	560
45	600

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Cash-on-Delivery Parcels
Cash-on-Delivery Fee	80p on outgoing parcel

GIVEN under my Hand, this 27th day of July, 1979.

TOM FITZPATRICK.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents

to the provisions of the foregoing Warrant.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 27th

day of July, 1979.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Warrant applies to the Foreign Parcel Post service and comes into operation the 1st August, 1979. It authorises an increase in the maximum postage which may be charged on a foreign surface parcel from £12 to £15 and on a foreign air parcel from £2.00 to £2.50 per 250g. It also authorises increases in fees charged, the Insurance, Customs Clearance and Cash-on-Delivery services and for increases in compensation in respect of insured and uninsured parcels.