Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951

Forms, amounts and poundage of postal orders.

5.—(1) The special form in which postal orders may be issued in accordance with the provisions of section 24 of the Act of 1908 shall be prescribed by the Minister, and accordingly in subsection (1) of that section for the words “the regulations made under the preceding section” there shall be substituted the word “him” and for the words “the said regulations” there shall be substituted the words “the regulations made under the preceding section”.

(2) Proviso (a) to subsection (1) of section 24 of the Act of 1908 shall cease to have effect and the amounts for which postal orders may be issued and the poundage to be payable in respect of them shall be such as may be prescribed, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, by Post Office regulations.