S.I. No. 31/1928 - The Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant, 1928.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1928. No. 31.

THE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PARCEL POST AMENDMENT (No. 4) WARRANT, 1928.

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS.

Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post.

THE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PARCEL POST AMENDMENT

(NO. 4) WARRANT, 1928.

Dated 1st May, 1928.

I, the Minister for Finance and for Posts and Telegraphs of the Irish Free State, in exercise of all 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:—

(1) This Warrant shall be read as one with the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant, 1921, S.R., & O., 1921, No. 1513 hereinafter called " the Principal Warrant," and any Warrant amending the same.

(2) Regulation 10 (4) of the Principal Warrant is hereby repealed and the following Regulation shall have effect in substitution therefor:—

10. (4)—

(a) Where an incoming parcel cannot be delivered as originally addressed and under any such arrangement as above mentioned the name and address of a substituted addressee has been furnished by the sender and the parcel is forwarded to the substituted address, or

(b) Where an incoming parcel, which cannot be delivered within such reasonable time as the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs may from time to time prescribe, is subsequently re-transmitted to the addressee thereof at the request of the sender or of the 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 re-transmission as the case may be.

(3) This Warrant may be cited as the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant, 1928.

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

Dated this 1st day of May, 1928.

(Signed) EARNÁN DE BLAGHD,

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