S.I. No. 95/1986 - Money Order Amendment (No. 29) Scheme, 1986.


S.I. No. 95 of 1986.

MONEY ORDER AMENDMENT (No. 29) SCHEME, 1986.

AN POST, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 70 of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 (No. 24 of 1983), and with the consent of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Scheme:

1. This Scheme may be cited as the Money Order Amendment (No. 29) Scheme, 1986.

2. This Scheme shall come into operation on the 3rd day of March, 1986.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Scheme.

4. In this Scheme—

"the Principal Regulations" means the Money Order Regulations, 1903;

"the Regulations of 1982" means the Money Order Amendment (No. 27) Regulations, 1982 ( S.I. No. 61 of 1982 );

"the Regulations of 1985" means the Money Order Amendment (No. 28) Regulations, 1985 ( S.I. No. 138 of 1985 ).

5. Regulation 18 (1) of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution of the following tables for Tables A, B and C (inserted by Regulations 5 of the Regulations of 1985) which set out the poundage payable in respect of money orders:

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A

Poundage

In respect of inland money orders:

for an amount not exceeding £50 ... ...

100p

for an amount exceeding £50 but not exceeding £100 ... ...

160p

B

In respect of foreign money orders:

for an amount not exceeding £25 ... ...

160p

for an amount exceeding £25 but not exceeding £50 ... ... ...

240p

C

In respect of supplementary services:

for correcting or altering the name of the remitter or payee..

105p

for stopping payment ... ... ... ...

105p

for the issue of a duplicate money order (including stopping payment of the original order) ... ... ... ... ... ...

105p

for the renewal of a void money order

105p

for an advice or certificate of payment of an inland money order ... ... ... ...

30p

for an advice or certificate of payment of a foreign money order ... ... ... ...

30p

6. Regulation 25 of the Principal Regulations, as amended by Regulation 6 of the Regulations of 1985 is hereby amended by the substitution of "a supplementary fee of thirty pence" for "a supplementary fee of twenty-five pence".

7. Regulation 26 of the Principal Regulations (inserted by Regulation 7 of the Regulations of 1982 and as amended by Regulation 7 of the Regulations of 1985) is hereby amended by the substitution of "thirty pence" for "twenty-five pence".

GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 28th day of February, 1986.

Present when the Common Seal of An Post was affixed hereto:—

H. COOKE

G. HARVEY

_______________

_______________

Name

Director

Manager, Company Secretary's Office

JIM TREACY

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_______________

Description

Secretary

An Post,

General Post Office,

Dublin 1.

I, JIM MITCHELL, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing scheme.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 28th day of February, 1986.

JIM MITCHELL.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Scheme applies to the Money Order service and comes into operation on the 3rd March, 1986. It authorises increases in charges on inland and foreign money orders, telegraph money orders and in other miscellaneous charges.