S.I. No. 108/1981 - Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) (Amendment) Regulations, 1981.

S.I. No. 108 of 1981.

TELEGRAPH (FOREIGN WRITTEN TELEGRAM) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1981.

I, ALBERT REYNOLDS, 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, 1981.

(2) The Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) Regulations, 1981 ( S.I. No. 198 of 1980 ), and these Regulations may be cited together as the Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) Regulations, 1980 and 1981.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1981.

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

4. The Telegraph (Foreign Written Telegram) Regulations, 1980, are hereby amended by the substitution of the following for the entries in the Schedule thereto:

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.	22p	44p
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.).	29p	58p
All other places	37p	74p

2. The rates for Government Telegrams, Service Telegrams, Telegrams relating to the safety of life (SVH), 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
	Destinations
Destinations		Rate per word
Standard Rate	Urgent Rate
Europe and the Mediterranean Basin
(i) Malta:		7p	12p
(ii) Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Azores, Balearic Is., Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Libya, Madeira. Monaco, Morocco, Poland, Roumania, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Vatican City:		11p	22p
North American and Caribbean:
(i) Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Carriacou, Cayman Islands, Dominica Island, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad and Turks Island:		7p	15p
(ii) Antilles (Netherlands), Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Pierre and Miquelon, U.S.A. (including Alaska and Hawaii Islands) and Virgin Islands (U.S.A.):		9p	29p
Rest of World:
(i) Ascension, Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brunei, Chatham Islands, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Cook (Hervey) Island, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaya, Mauritius, Nauru, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norfolk Islands, Papua, Rodriguez Islands, St. Helena, Sabah, Samoa (Western), Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Tristan da Cunha Uganda, Willis Islands, Zambia and Zimbabwe,		7p	21p
(ii) All other places:		12p	37p

5. Radiotelegrams.

Category	Route/Destination	Charge
Ordinary, standard rate	( a ) via Irish or British coast stations	23p per word
	( b ) via other coast stations	23p 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	23p per word (plus cost of telegram to country in which coast station is located at urgent rate)
Ordinary, reduced rate	via Irish Coast Stations only	14p per word
Press, standard rate	via Irish or British Coast Stations	12p per word
Press, reduced rate	via Irish Coast Stations only	7p per word
Warships, standard rate	( a ) to Ships in Home Fleet	10p per word
	( b ) to Ships serving abroad	14p per word
Marisat, standard rate	via satellite (Marisat)	55p per word
Ships Letter Telegram	via Irish coast stations only	5p per word

6. Miscellaneous Radiomaritime Service.

Description	Charge
Notification of Transmission:
( a ) via Irish coast station ... ... ... ...	110p
( b ) via British coast station ... ... ... ...	127p
Cancellation:
( a ) Before message sent to coast station ... ...	14p
( b ) After receipt at coast station and before message sent to ship:
Coast station in Ireland ... ... ... ...	110p
plus reply ... ... ... ... ...	110p
Coast station in Britain ... ... ... ...	127p
plus reply ... ... ... ... ...	127p
Information about ships:
per enquiry ... ... ... ... ...	14p
Abbreviated telegraphic address for radiotelegrams from ships:
Annual fee ... ... ... ... ...	37p
Weather Forecast:
per enquiry ... ... ... ... ...	145p
Position (QTG) enquiry from ships ... ... ... ...	71p

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 27th day of March, 1981.

ALBERT REYNOLDS,

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 27th day of March, 1981.

GENE FITZGERALD.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for increases in charges of 15% approximately.