S.I. No. 265/1979 - Newspapers (Special Service For Conveyance by Post Office Mail Vans) Amendment (No. 5) Warrant, 1979.

S.I. No. 265 of 1979.

NEWSPAPERS (SPECIAL SERVICE FOR CONVEYANCE BY POST OFFICE MAIL VANS) AMENDMENT (NO. 5) 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 Newspapers (Special Service for Conveyance by Post Office Mail Vans) Amendment (No. 5) Warrant, 1979.

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

2. Regulation 4 of the Newspapers (Special Service for Conveyance by Post Office Mail Vans) Warrant, 1957 ( S.I. No. 37 of 1957 ) is hereby amended by the substitution in paragraph (b) for " 15 1b " of " 10 kg ".

3. The Schedule to the Newspapers (Special Service for Conveyance by Post Office Mail Vans) Warrant, 1957, as amended by the Newspapers (Special Service for Conveyance by Post Office Mail Vans) Amendment (No. 4) Warrant, 1977 ( S.I. No. 215 of 1977 ), is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein of the entries in the Schedule to this Warrant.

SCHEDULE

In case the newspaper bundles sent to the newsagent are bundles each not exceeding 1.5 kg. in weight	£15 per annum
In case the newspaper bundles sent to the newsagent are bundles each exceeding 1.5 kg. and not exceeding 3 kg. in weight	£22 per annum
In case the newspaper bundles sent to the newsagent are bundles each exceeding 3 kg. and not exceeding 5 kg. in weight	£29 per annum
In case the newspaper bundles sent to the newsagent are bundles each exceeding 5 kg. and not exceeding 7 kg. in weight	£40 per annum
In case the newspaper bundles sent to the newsagent are bundles each exceeding 7 kg. and not exceeding 10 kg. in weight	£50 per annum

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.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Warrant comes into operation on the 1st August, 1979. It authorises increases in the charges for the conveyance by Post Office mail vans on rural services of bundles of newly-published daily newspapers.